ST. MARGARET'S (BELFAST, MAINE)

Adult Education

So much more than “Sunday School for Adults”! Our Adult Education usually takes place on Sundays during coffee hour (but sometimes, more recently, has been on Zoom during the week at a regularly scheduled time). How do we learn and grow in our spiritual lives? One way of doing this is through Christian formation: the nourishment and stimulation of our faith, in a class setting.

Over the years we’ve had classes on books – Howard Thurman’s “Jesus and the Disinherited” – and books of the Bible, St. Matthew’s Gospel and Job. We’ve listened to the great Aretha Franklin sing “Mary, Don’t You Weep” from her 1972 Gospel recording, and read together a piece called “What Is It Like To Be a Bat?” In 2019, we dove into Civil Discourse, a curriculum developed by ReclaimingJesus.org.

While often moderated by clergy, lay people offer their professional expertise to these gatherings and often run them themselves!