Details
An explorative Bible study, building on the “Christ in Creation” Illuminate publication. This session brings together Woodbrooke and Pendle Hill in an extended conversation about Scripture, nature, and environmental witness.
This session is an opportunity for the Illuminate authors to share what led them to write, and what inspired them most about the theme of creation. The session will be centered around several strands:
- The Wisdom tradition of Proverbs
- The creation theology of Romans
- The restorative vision of Isaiah
- The raw challenge of Revelation.
Participants will have the chance to explore some Biblical images and texts in small groups, as well as engage with the authors. This event will particularly appeal to Friends who want to go deeper and their understanding of the Bible, and those who wish to ground their climate activism in a rich soil of spiritual insight.
Workshop Leaders
Cherice Bock (she/her) presented the Bible Half-Hours at New England Yearly Meeting Sessions in 2020. She is adjunct faculty at University of Portland and is an editor of the Friends Bible study curriculum Illuminate, and she has also written A Quaker Ecology: Meditations on the Future of Friends.
Christina Muhr spends most of her time as a middle school science teacher in Southern Oregon. She is a co-editor and contributor to Barclay Press’s Illuminate Sunday school material and an active member of a programmed Friends Meeting.
Martin Kelley is a Quaker writer, workshop leader, and editor, with a focus on outreach, nonviolence, and the Christian roots of Friends. He is senior editor of Friends Journal and also writes on his longstanding blog at QuakerRanter.org. He is a member of Cropwell Meeting in Marlton, N.J., where he currently serves as clerk.
Phil Baisley teaches Pastoral Ministry at Earlham School of Religion, pastors the Greenfield Friends Church (NAoF), and is active in the local theater and music scenes. Phil is the author of The Same, But Different: Ministry and the Quaker Pastor and a memoir, Tales of a Canarsie Boy, published serially on his blog: www.philbaisley.com/talesofacanarsieboy. He is a frequent contributor to Illuminate and Fruit of the Vine.