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Sunday ForumChrist Church, Georgetown

10:00 am

Adult Education at Christ Church is primarily about our Christian formation and spiritual growth through study, refl ection, and discussion. With other believers and seekers, we use the gifts of faith and reason in seeking a deeper knowledge of God in our own lives, as encountered in the Risen Christ.

The Sunday Forum, now being off ered in its third decade, is complemented by many opportunities for exploration and learning including the Inquirer’s Class, Women’s Bible Study, the Men’s Ministry Group, Seasonal Series, Quiet Mornings, and Contemplative Life.

For more information, visit our website:www.christchurchgeorgetown.org.

2020–2021The coming of COVID-19 this past March meant that the Sunday Forum, along with everything else, was interrupted in mid-fl ight.

In putting together the course for the 2020–2021 program year, we thus decided to complete the intended Spring series, Navigating the Modern Wilderness, from September through November. 

We will then devote the rest of this unusual year to a variety of subjects including seasonal off erings, questions raised by COVID-19, the pastoral offi ces, the ethical imagination, Islam, and two lectures by Christ Church clergy.

With the situation around gathering still uncertain, the plan is to have in-person Sunday Forums if feasible, but also to provide the lectures online by webinar. Th us, everyone will have the choice to attend in person or to view online.

Thoughtful Study & Conversation on Topics Central to Christian

Theology, Faith, & Practice

Fall/Winter 2020Forgiveness and Reconciliation in CommunitySept. 20 Options for Reconciliation in

Community—Barry SeltserSept. 27 Liturgies of Reconciliation and

Forgiveness—Frank Wade

Living with Other Faiths in CommunityOct. 4 Interfaith Approaches and Religious

Diversity—Jim FarwellOct. 11 Christian View of Judaism,

Supercessionism—Barry SeltserOct. 18 Islam in the Modern World—Dr. Fareed

Yasseen, Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S.Oct. 25 Muslim Theology: The Basics—

Guest Speaker

Rules of Life for CommunityNov. 1 Useful Rules: Perspective A—Frank WadeNov. 8 Veterans Day Weekend—No sessionNov. 15 Useful Rules: Perspective B—Jim FarwellNov. 22 Useful Rules: Perspective C—Kathy StaudtNov. 29 Thanksgiving Weekend—No sessionDec. 6 Poetry for Advent—Kathy StaudtDec. 13 Lamentations and Hope in a Time

of Waiting: The Lamentations of Jeremiah—Barry Seltser

Dec. 20 The Cast of the Christmas Drama—Frank Wade

Winter/Spring 2021Jan. 3 Presentation on Mission—The Mission

CommitteeJan. 10 Experiencing God in Epiphany I: Israel

and the Presence of God—Barry SeltserJan. 17 Experiencing God in Epiphany II:

Incarnation and the Presence of God—Barry Seltser

Jan. 24 Experiencing God in Epiphany III: The Cross and the Absence of God—Barry Seltser

Jan. 31 Poetry for Epiphany—Kathy StaudtFeb. 7 Annual Parish Meeting—No sessionFeb. 14 Questions about the Eucharist

COVID/Post COVID—Jim FarwellFeb. 21 Church House of Pancakes—No sessionFeb. 28 Questions about the Eucharist

COVID/Post COVID—Jim FarwellMarch 7 Why go back to church (after the virus)

—Frank WadeMarch 14 Poetry for Lent and Passiontide—

Kathy StaudtMarch 21 Baptism—Frank WadeMarch 28 Palm Sunday—No sessionApril 4 Easter—No sessionApril 11 Visitation of the Sick—Frank WadeApril 18 The Burial Office—Frank WadeApril 25 Ethical Imagination I: The Scottish

Enlightenment and the moral sense—Barry Seltser

May 2 Ethical Imagination II: Christian obligations to future generations— Barry Seltser

May 9 Christian Hope: What does it mean to live in hope?—Kathy Staudt

May 16 Biblical Fracking—Frank WadeMay 23 High and Dry? Anglican devotional life

before the Oxford Movement . . . and after—Associate Rector

May 30 Army Chaplaincy: “In hoc signo vinces” —The Rector

LecturersDr. Barry Seltser, B.A., Ph.D. Yale, taught religious studies at two universities and has offered adult education courses at churches for more than 30 years. Dr. Seltser was a researcher of the Senior Executive Service at the U.S. Government Accountability Office and has been part of Christ Church Forum programs for nearly 30 years.

Dr. Kathleen Staudt, A.B. Smith, Ph.D. Yale, has taught theology, spirituality, and literature at the University of Maryland, Virginia Theological Seminary, and Wesley Theological Seminary and is active as a leader of retreats and education programs. She is the author of three books of poetry as well as two scholarly studies of poet and artist David Jones.

The Reverend James Farwell, B.A. Catholic University, M.Div. General Theological Seminary, Ph.D. Emory University, is the Professor of Theology and Liturgy at Virginia Theological Seminary. He is the author of two books and numerous articles and essays on liturgy and sacraments, inter-religious engagement, and dual religious practice. He is co-editor of the forthcoming T&T Clark Companion to Sacraments and Sacramentality.

The Reverend Dr. Frank Wade, The Citadel, M.Div. Virginia Theological Seminary, was ordained in 1966 and served as Rector of St. Alban’s and Interim Dean of Washington National Cathedral. His sermons and meditations have been widely published, and he is author of The Art of Being Together: Common Sense about Lifelong Relationships and recently Biblical Fracking: Midrash for the Modern Christian. He is also an adjunct professor at Virginia Theological Seminary.

Adult Education CommitteeCorky Stone, Committee Chair; Bill Burns, Tim Carrington, Missy Daniel, Boyden Gray, William Nitze, Mac Norton, Sally Squires Wilhelm, and the Reverend Andrew Kryzak (ex officio), Members.