Classes

Upcoming online classes include:

Occupy the Scriptures: Economic Justice and the Bible

The authors of the Bible expressed many strong opinions about economics, from advocating the complete erasure of debts every 50 years to suggesting that the way to get to heaven is to give away everything we own. In this class we'll learn about some of the Biblical attitudes about economic issues, compare them to our own and other modern convictions, and challenge ourselves to think deeply about what would constitute a just economic system.

Topics include: the ideal economic community and how to create it, debt and debt forgiveness, attitudes toward labor, ethics in banking, the “preferential option for the poor,” Christian communism, the responsible use of wealth, and the question of the impact of our wealth (or poverty) on our happiness and holiness.

The teachers for this course are Darcey Laine, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin, Pennsylvania, and Amy Zucker Morgenstern, the parish minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, California. Sessions begin January 11 and run weekly through February 15 (6 sessions). There is a $40 fee for this class.
 

Finding Our Stories

Storytelling is a way we keep and share our religious tradition. It is also an important part of how we make meaning in our own lives. It is helpful, therefore, to become conscious of the overarching narrative we are sharing and perpetuating through our stories. The goals of this class will be to become more familiar with the stories in our Unitarian Universalist religious tradition and the stories that are important in our own lives, to notice the common themes and messages of these stories, and to build a canon of stories that give shape to the lives and the world we hope to build.

This course is taught by Rev. Darcey Laine, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Athens and Sheshequin, New York. Sessions begin March 8th and run weekly through April 12th (4 sessions) . There is a $40 fee for this class.