This Sunday: Are Heresy and Doubt Essential Religious Qualities?
Visiting speaker, Jack Peirce will lead a conversation about the nature of faith and religious inquiry. Inspired by the controversial writings of French philosopher and Jesuit theologian, Teilhard de Chardin, Jack will start the conversation using a list of words and sayings to help us explore the positive role of heresy and doubt, or agnosticism, in religious thought. We will explore such words as resilience, belief, adaptive unconscious, uncertainty and problem-solving — where verbal definitions come readily, albeit variably — and wonder, awe and reverence, where definitions are harder to come by, but which converge on religious experience. Speaker, Jack Peirce. Lay leader, John Peirce. Accompanist, Laurel Holmes. Read More »