A couple of months ago we hosted a 2-night event to celebrate the book-launch for “Uncontrolling Love”.

Night 1 was a conversation between Pastor Bo and the author Thomas Jay Oord.  Part 2 (tomorrow) will bring in some of the other contributing authors.

If you want to hear the follow night’s conversation with Randy and Edith Woodley, head over to the Peacing It All Together podcast at this link: https://www.peacingitalltogether.com/podcast/2018/6/25/episode-4-uncontrolling-love

You can get Tom’s original book here: AMAZON as well as the response book [link] 

Make sure to check out Vermont Hills UMC webpage for upcoming events. Come join the conversation! 

Highlights from the Sunday gathering for June 10, 2018

Sacred Everyday is our theme as Elizabeth comes to the table and Katie leads music.

Pastor Bo talks about becoming aware of the sacred in the everyday every day.

Katie and Bo recap Mark 13 (an odd passage for sure)

In the Sacred Everyday we are up to the chapter about friendship.

Enjoy listening to this short homily by Pastor Bo.

Katie and Bo recap the Gospel of Mark chapters 11 and 12

We are becoming a conversational community. Today we had a special guest, Dr. Kirsten Carr, to talk to us about aging and care.

Our ‘Sacred Everyday‘ conversation was about “too much of good thing”.

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Come and join the conversation! 

Hope you are open to new ideas! This is the final Sunday School conversation of Spring 2018.

Pastor Bo introduces his adventurous ideas about God in the future.

God is the power of the future – God’s power is the future – God lives in the future …

Those 3 ways to try and get at the issues.

Enjoy this lively conversation but be prepared to hear some stuff you may not have heard before.

Topics include: prolepsis, future, god, heaven, afterlife, and process thought.

Week 4 of “5 Favorite Ideas”

Kin-dom of God language is an idea worth entertaining.

You can also watch a short (10 min) summary video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt9i6pJeYss

John Espy joins Bo to talk about a topic that might best be called “second faith” …

The question is something like ‘what does faith look like after you outgrow your younger faith?‘

A lot of people are struggling right now with how to be a person of faith when they no longer believe what they used to.

Today we engage the ideas of a thinker named Paul Ricoeur who talks about ‘passing through the desert of criticism’ into a new understanding of faith and practice. Many people never make it that far – their faith dies in the desert.

“Beyond the desert of criticism we wish to be called again.” The Call is a gift.

What does it mean to be an Easter people?

You can say “a different way to be in the world” … and that first step is a change in your personal orientation.

The next step is then to talk about being “a different way in the world”, which is a communal commitment and expression.

You can read (and respond) the initial post on Pastor Bo’s personal blog. https://bosanders.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/being-a-different-way-in-the-world/