PreK-1^st 

2^nd-5^th Grade: No class – Youth and Teen Service

Second Hour

PreK-5^th Grade: Fun In Action

Tween Class

PreK-1^st 

2^nd-5^th Grade: Service Prep taught by Jennifer Jordan. Note: Need tweens in this class

Second Hour

PreK-5^th Grade: Fun In Action

Tween Class

“Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it”. Benjamin Franklin

Like an old friend, I often return to a book that’s sat on my bookshelf for decades. “Adventures of the Mind” contains an essay by existentialist theologian Paul Tillich. In it Tillich says,”Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of existence and being able to receive the answers, even if the answers hurt. Such an idea of religion makes religion universally human, but it certainly differs from what is usually called religion”

Humanism’s my questing tool, but what sent me scurrying back to Tillich, apart from the waves of political evangelism washing over us, is the plight of 57,000 American Catholic women finding themselves under a Vatican onslaught for daring to delve into such heresies as (gasp) LGBT, or contraception ( practiced by most Catholic females), and even life’s beginning and end issues. How dare the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) claim such inspiration to explore the “radical call of the Gospel”?

Yet hardly a “Catholic problem” within our country’s generic belief system (the belief in Jesus’ divinity), as we find Believers of every ilk and persuasion asserting their specific church’s teachings are more correct and absolute. Nonetheless, we’re still God’s chosen nation. Presumably including our mosques and temples as well. Yet somehow a Deity that created trillions of celestial bodies does seem somewhat trivialized in prescribing how we dress, eat, enjoy ourselves, and now – how to vote!

Kind of makes our little fellowship of free thought seem, well – a little heavenly, doesn’t it?

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