Every Thursday, from 08/22/2024 to 09/26/2024, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Did Jesus always obey? Nope. Let’s talk.
This year, starting August 22 and running through September 26, Spiritual University’s rebellious little sibling, Deconstruct U*, returns all fired up to take the podium(back!). This fall, we will spend six weeks engaging with German, Lutheran, Liberation theologian and Scholar, Dorothee Sölle, to examine the very disobedient life of Christ and how this impacts Christian faith and praxis in the world coram Deo and coram hominibus (before God and before the neighbor).
We will engage six essays from Sölle’s work, Creative Disobedience, and we will gather a more robust understanding of what obedience is and isn’t, how traditional conceptions of disobedience have caused layers of individual and communal trauma, how Jesus disrupted the kingdom of humanity and its created orders to bear into the world the new life of the reign of God, and dare to embrace our call to live lives that reflect this disobedience life of Christ to the glory of God and the wellbeing of our neighbor. In other words, we will see how “disobedience” is now no longer a “four-letter-word” but a vibrant and necessary aspect of Christian being in the socio-political world, bringing God honor and praise! So, come for a conversation that’s a bit more disobedient than normal. Join us on Thursdays evenings from 6:00- 7:30 pm from August 22 to September 26 at Nativity, it’s where you belong; yes, even U.
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*Deconstruct U is an intentional 3rd space where we can bring our tough existential questions, be honest about our personal and
spiritual deconstruction, and enter into edifying and affirming conversations. The goal of Deconstruct U is to provide this space for
people who are losing their religion, who have lost their religion, who are questioning their religion, and people who find themselves lost in a sea of socio-political (mis)information.