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	Course Outline and Links to the 10 Session Pages  Material is added steadily through the course.   As it is found and presented and written, blue links will appear below.
Session	Theme	Chapter Readings
1 Jan 18	Intro Evening. Video - A lecture by the author Harvey Cox, "When Jesus Came to Harvard" (link to full 83 min lecture)
2 Jan 25	How Faith Begins - Larry Fisk	Ch 1 - The Sacred in the Secular Ch 2 - Awe, Wonder, and Faith Ch 3 - The Voyage from Mystery to Faith
3 Feb 1	How Faith Turned into Belief -Wayne	Ch 4 - What Happens When it Wasn't Really That Way? Ch 5 - The Devolution from Faith to Belief Ch 6 - The Rise of the Clerical Class
4 Feb 8	How Belief had to have Orthodoxy - Jock	Ch 7 - The Invention of Heresy Ch 8 - How to Fix the Papacy
5 Feb 15	How We Might Move to the Future - Wayne	Ch 9 - Beyond the Interfaith Dialogue
6 Feb 22	How the Family Stopped Talking - Larry Fisk	Ch 10 - The Pathos of fundamentalism Ch 11 - Which Bible Do the Bible Believers Believe?
7 Mar 1	How Jesus Message Reached the Poor - Jock	Ch 12 - Where the Past Meets the Future Ch 13 - Liberation Theology and the Rebirth of Faith
8 Mar 8	How the Poor Hear the Jesus Message - Wayne	Ch 14 - Pentecostals and the Age of the Spirit
9 Mar 15	How the Future Might Arrive -Jock Video - A People's History - Dianna Butler Bass	Ch 15 - The Future of Faith
10 Mar 22	Guest Speaker on the Pentecostal Movement as Cox introduces.

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Holy Manners The background on the phrase and why we have adopted it. The guidelines for our studies.

Internet Discussion Group at Yahoo - the St. David's Forum. The archive is public and readable. Participation is by invitation. Click HERE if you would like to join. You will then be able to post your own responses to the list and will be emailed the notices and contributions of the others. Click left to visit the archives of the site (read only). There are presently 88 persons.

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge. ... Proverbs 23:12 (NIV)

Group Facilitator. Wayne Holst              EMAIL WAYNE I spent most of my life thinking like a church professional, rather than as a regular congregational member. My training as a pastor always had me asking myself 'how can I apply this discovery, insight, new information to a regular church setting?' Often, clergy have been hesitant to share the discoveries they have made through a 'critical' approach to the Bible with their parishoners because they wonder how laypeople might accept it. I have found that many thinking laity are professionals in their own fields of endeavour and understand a critical approach very readily. What they seek are ways of relating faith to daily living. I am grateful for the journey I have been taking through ordained ministry to teaching at the university and serving as a fellow layperson at St.David's United Church. Here we find that questioning and honest expression of our faith and doubt is readily accepted and supported.

Group Facilitator. Jock McTavish           EMAIL JOCK I am a student and a poet, a democrat and a techocrat, an eclectic eccentric. I grew up in a loving Baptist community, so in my heart I'm still a Bible loving evangelical. As I grew in learning I found a new home in the United Church whose tolerance embraces the broadest range of Christian understanding. I most enjoy the illumination of our ancient traditions by modern scholarship. For they show in clear novel ways that the perspectives of the Special Ones were seldom the understandings of those that followed. They show all knowledge to be in relationship . There seems a lack of understanding in our secular world for religious practices. The reasons why I still gladly - even necessarily - attend church are difficult to voice to those unfamiliar with church, or those injured by church. Elliott got it right. We find our way back to the place we started from. But with new understanding.