Rooted

• Welcome Letter

• For Adults: Walk in Love, Episcopal Beliefs and Practices, by Scott Gunn and Melody Wilson Shobe

• For adolescents: My Faith, My Life (Revised edition): A Teen’s Guide to the Episcopal Church, by Jennifer Gamber

• Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon on communion at a virtual meeting of the House of Bishops in July 2020 (15 minute read)

• Instructed Eucharist by Episcopal priest Callie Swanlund (54 minute video).  This is exactly what it sounds like - an 'instructed' service of The Holy Eucharist.

• Our idea of heaven wrong, says N. T. Wright, The Christian Century.  (5 minute read). Illustrative of the role of reason in faith for Anglicans and Episcopalians.

• Adults read Walk in Love, chapters 4, 5, 14

• Adolescents read My Faith, My Life, chapter 5 & 6 

• Dr. Osman Umjari on why our image of God matters.

• On Being Created in the Image of God: Human Solidarity from a Jewish Perspective, Shai Held (54 minute lecture):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n631DscSTpo

• Catholic priest, contemplative, and social justice advocate Richard Rohr wrote this daily meditation that touches on being made in the divine image.

• What Pronouns Do You Use? 

• Wendy Claire Barrie: Theology is God-Talk

• Adults read Walk in Love, chapters 1 - 3; 19 - 23.

• Adolescents read My Faith, My Life, Foreword and chapter 1 & 9. 

• Hopefully you liked her essay on God-Talk from week two.  Here’s more of priest Wendy Claire Barrie on spiritual practices: saltproject.org/progressive-christian-blog/on-prayer-by-wendy-claire-barrie

• Episcopalian and contemplative practices teacher Lindsay Boyer provides simple and clear instructions for lectio Divina; and Ignatian meditation with scripture passages, sometimes referred to as imaginative prayer.

• The Book of Common Prayer online: While we think everyone should own their own BCP, this is the standard online version.

• Adults read Walk in Love, chapters 9 & 16

• Adolescents read My Faith, My Life, chapter 7 

• Hot off the press is a brand-new Bible: Here’s why there’s an updated Edition of the New Revised Standard Edition (NRSV).

• Translation matters. When asked, we tell people who are shopping for a bible to purchase a NRSVue (the updated NRSV translation).

• This article provides insights on how translations can differ.

• Here’s what the Episcopal Church says about the Apocrypha. You may be interested in this longer article explaining why we value these books.

• The Bible Project is a fantastic way to learn about the Bible. The scholarship is sound and the presentations are videos presented like graphic novels. There are summaries of every book in the Bible and the Apocrypha as well as other series and guides on biblical themes. It’s quite good.

• The Yale Bible Study is another accessible (and free) online resource for Bible Study with sound scholarship. These are more like online courses which take, theoretically, several weeks rather than several minutes and address biblical books and themes with videos and written support materials. At this point in time the videos are getting a bit dated.

• Going deeper and a little bit old school: These two articles go all the way back to Jim’s seminary days and address things related to your possessing a biblical hermeneutic. This entry from the Interpreter’s Bible Dictionary will teach you about biblical exegesis.

• This piece by Ellen Davis addresses how we might approach reading a challenging text like Leviticus in the church. You will even see some of Jim’s highlights and doodles!

Reading Assignments:

Adults: Walk in Love, chapter 14, Written for Our Learning

Adolescents: My Faith, My Life, chapter 2, The Bible, stories about Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.