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For our current Faith Formation series Derek Uejo, a Chaplain at Duke Hospital, will be leading panel discussions with those who care for the sick and dying. You can view the topics of these upcoming sessions below.
October 22 - “Mending Broken Bodies, Hearts, and Minds: A Panel Discussion”
October 29 - "To be Remembered: Pastoral Care for the Homebound, Sick, and at the time of Death."
Past Classes
Over the next four weeks we will be having several distinguished members of our congregation and diocese coming to speak during our Faith Formation hour about the depth of various aspects of our worship life.
September 17 - Sally Breedlove Video
September 24 - Ross Wagner Video: Part 1 & Part 2
September 31 - Ron Rittgers Video
During our summer faith formation will be leading a class discussing the liturgical season of Ordinary Time. The class will begin by talking together about the whole Liturgical Calendar, how Ordinary Time fits into it, and exploring our own journeys within the season of Ordinary Time. From there, over the next several weeks, the class will visit with some of the prayers and Scriptures of this season in the Prayer Book, read and write some poetry, and reflect on how we might live into our Resurrection story in the midst of days of coffee and logistical tasks, friendships and conversation, quietness and peace. Join us Sundays during the interlude for this exciting series!
Over the next two weeks Collin Flake will be presenting a Faith Formation class on Dallas Willard’s book hearing God. During the second week, Collin will have a panel of spiritual directors discuss how we cultivate a listening ear towards God’s will in our lives.
During the Faith Formation class, members of our youth group will be presenting some highlights and reflections from their art retreat last month, which was held at Ali Givens’s studio. They’ll also be unveiling a brand-new art piece they created during the retreat! Join us in the sanctuary at 10am to be among the first to see this new masterpiece and to hear from some of the incredibly talented, creative young people who are part of the All Saints youth group.
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During our faith formation series entitled “Practicing Resurrection” we will have a different ordinand from All Saints Church present on what it looks like to live in light of the resurrection.
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Our Lenten Faith Formation series entitled "Christian Faith and Practice in the Wilderness" features multiple in-house speakers presenting on various topics. Join us at 10am in the Sanctuary throughout Lent.
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2/26: Kendall Vanderslice will be giving a presentation based on her new book, “By Bread Alone: A Baker's Reflections on Hunger, Longing, and the Goodness of God.”
3/5: Dr. Kathryn Wagner will be giving a presentation on a medieval practice connected to reciting the Lord's Prayer.
3/12: Dr. Dan Train will be giving a presentation on Flannery O’Connor.
3/19: Greg Little from Reality Ministeries will be giving a presentation of Dorothy Day.
3/26: Dr. Ron Rittgers will be giving a presentation entitled, ““A Lesson on Lament from the Late Reformation.”
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According to a 2019 Barnum poll, 47% of Christian millennials thought that evangelism was wrong. While we may not all think evangelism is a “dirty word” for some of us it an abstract or even fearful topic. During the next three-week faith formation series, our Duke Divinity School intern, Hannah Howland, hopes to explore with you all the topic of evangelism—what it is and how we do it. We will focus on learning to tell God’s story in the world and God’s story in our own lives in ways that are emotionally resonate and deeply embodied. She hopes we can have lively discussions on what it means to live and proclaim the good news about Jesus—and enjoy some memes and poems along the way. Join us sunday mornings during the interlude for this exciting series!
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Sunday Morning Faith Formation: Leading and Serving from Our Strengths
Have you ever been asked to name some of your strengths and were not quite sure what to say? Perhaps you were in a job interview and stumbled through a generic answer claiming strengths such as “helping others,” “listening,” and “organization.” Or perhaps you were talking with a friend one day and the topic of conversation moved to strengths, afraid of sounding prideful you brushed the topic aside. Talking about strengths can be complicated for several reasons but two of the biggest are–as demonstrated in the hypotheticals above–regarding language and appearance. That is, it is common for one to lack the language needed to articulate one’s strengths and, second, to be worried about bragging or appearing prideful. Join our Duke Divinity School intern Zach Croonquist as he leads a 3-week class exploring and discussing how our Christian faith gives us language and a servant-hearted framework for talking about our strengths, how it assuages our fears of appearing prideful, and how it roots the conversation in the love and providence of God.
We are going to use the CliftonStrengths© assessment which is a fantastic tool created by Don Clifton who is widely regarded as the father of strengths-based psychology and grandfather of positive psychology. The assessment is backed by decades of research and used extensively in corporations, nonprofit organizations, and universities. You can purchase an access code and take this assessment here. The assessment takes about 30 minutes to complete and costs $20, if that cost is prohibitive for your participation in this class, please reach out to Jeremy in the office (admin@allsaints-chd.org), the church can provide financial assistance. You will need to take the assessment and bring your results to church for this class to make sense and be worth your while. If you have taken the CliftonStrengths assessment before, there is no need to take it again, just bring your results. I hope you’ll join us these next three weeks as explore our strengths together!
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During Advent we are going to spend our Faith Formation hour (10am, in the Sanctuary) learning about our various Local Missions Partners. We hope you can join us!
November 20: World Relief
November 27: Pregnancy Support Services
December 4: Reality Ministries
December 11: DurhamCares
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This class will focus on how the arts impact and intersect with our understanding and worship of God. Co-taught by a group of artists and theologians from our congregation, this class will begin on September 11th, and run through the end of October. Held in the Sanctuary, it will take place during our Interlude hour, starting at 10am.
September 11th
Speaker: Dr. Jeremy Begbie, the Thomas A. Langford Distinguished Research Professor of Theology at Duke Divinity School, where he directs the Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts
Topic: “Hoping in the Arts”
September 18th
Speaker: Christina Carnes Ananias, a candidate in the Doctor of Theology program at Duke Divinity School, where her research focuses on the intersection of systematic theology and modernist visual art. Having worked with artists and students for over a decade, Christina taught various art history courses at Charleston Southern University before returning to Duke and now speaks throughout the U.S. on Christianity and the arts. In her doctoral work, she weaves together Christology, late modern philosophy, and the paintings of the French modernists. Carnes Ananias was the inaugural holder of the Bowden fellowship for theology and the visual arts at Duke.
Topic: “Images: Power, Peril, and Promise”
September 25th
Speaker: Nicholas White, Doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Religion - Christian Theological Studies Track. Studying theology & the arts, with particular attention to theories of inspiration and literary/theological imagination.
Topic: These Things, These Things': Literature and the Theological Possibilities of Beholding
October 2nd
Speaker: Dan Train, Consulting Faculty; Associate Director, Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts at Duke Divinity School
Topic: To Use or to Enjoy? What does it mean for a Church to Love the Arts
October 9th
Speaker: Dr. Ehsan Samei, the Reed and Martha Rice Distinguished Professor of Radiology at Duke University School of Biomedical Engineering, and a classical flautist.
Topic: Art and Science: How they relate and what that tells us about the nature of reality
October 16th
Speaker: Jonathan Noël, our Director of Music, Jonathan, along with his wife, Amanda, have spent nearly three decades sharing their music through recordings and live events, performing in theaters and leading worship in chapels. Passionate songwriters, some of their songs have appeared on Grammy and Dove award winning albums. They’ve been pleased to write, perform, tour, and/or record with such diverse artists as Fernando Ortega, Andrew Peterson, Kelly Minter, Charlie Peacock, Jars of Clay, Andy Gullahorn, Jill Phillips, Wendell Kimbrough, Margaret Becker, Haley Fry, The Choir, Buddy Greene, Indelible Grace, Ron Block, Taylor Leonhart, Lincoln Brewster, and many more.
Topic: Restor(i)ed Synchrony and Imagination: The Art of Imitation
October 23rd
Speaker: Dr. Beth Linnartz, soprano, sings, teaches voice lessons and classes, and collaborates with other departments at Duke.
Topic: Singing in the Kingdom
October 30th
Speaker: Andrew Hendrixson, writer, artist, Doctoral student at Duke Divinity School
Topic: Art as Inquiry
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It doesn't take much to see that Christians in America have to navigate immense divisions and challenges - especially those pertaining to race. But what might it look like for all the saints at All Saints to flourish and experience radically transformed relationships empowered by grace? In a city as diverse as Durham, racial reconciliation should not be seen so much as a duty or a challenge, but a way of living into God's kingdom life. Join Derek Uejo as we explore Latasha Morrison's "Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation" during faith formation this summer. Each week I will present a brief outline of a section of the book and offer discussions questions - with plenty of time set aside for reflections, responses, and feedback. Join us at 9AM in the Fellowship Hall on Sunday mornings throughout this summer! Hope to see you there!
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Join our seminarian Zoe Cordes Selbin during March 13, 20, 21, and April 3 for a journey through Lent based around the BCP Invitation to Holy Lent! We often think of Lent as solely a time of restriction, but the Invitation actually asks us to engage in a season of self-examination, repentance, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and reading & meditating on God's holy Word. Zoe will lead us through 4 Sundays of discussions, activities and prayer around these spiritual disciplines. You are not required to pick a Lenten practice but highly encouraged to do so; this could be a prayer practice, a fasting practice, a Bible-reading practice, etc; but all are welcome to join regardless of practice. Please bring a notebook and a pen! Let us bless the Lord who forgives all our sins - His mercy endures forever!
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Our Epiphany Class was led by Divinity School intern Jeremy Alcorn who led an 8-part study focusing on the sacramental life of the Church. The class explored Old and New Testament connections to Baptism and the Eucharist, expanding our thinking on how God's grace in these movements of the Church animate our lives as a community and in our perspectives of ourselves.
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Ming Wilson, one of our Duke Divinity School Interns led our Advent Interlude Faith Formation as we “looked East” to the wisdom and insights of the Orthodox spiritual tradition. This four-part study distilled key themes from a recent work by Rowan Williams, focusing on our inborn desire for God, our common humanity in Christ, our role as a liturgical-sacramental church, and our reconciliatory witness to society.
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During the fall of 2021, Dr. Ross Wagner, a New Testament Professor at Duke Divinity School and priest, led our Faith Formation Class on the book of Acts.
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Caitlin Washburn and Travis Wilson discussed Kierkegaard’s short work “For Self Examination”. In a beautiful storm of wit and poetry Kierkegaard pushes us to consider just what it means to be an earnest Christian living in the modern West. Caitlin put together a three week long daily devotional containing passages of Scripture paired with short excerpts from For Self Examination, so you can get a taste of our discussion even if you couldn’t attend the class. You can access the devotional here. Happy reading friends!
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Have you wondered how the Creeds we say each week shape our hearts and minds? Join us to explore these powerful and ancient words.
The teaching team for this class includes: Nate Wright, Meg Greto, Art Going, James Adams, and Collin Flake.
Below are the video links to watch again or to join us on your own time:
