Our class meets in room 235 in the Education wing of Evangel Temple.


Fall Session 2023

This season, we will explore a variety of topics. Doug Olena will introduce the January and February 2024 reading of That Hideous Strength and AI and the Church. And then the class will be reading Cheryl Bridges Johns book, Re-Enchanting the Text. Finally during Advent we will read, Advent: The Season of Hope (The Fullness of Time: A Journey Through the Church Year) by Trish Harrison Warren.

Date Instructor Topic
September 3 Party at Panera 9 am, Panera on Battlefield across from the mall.
September 10 Doug Olena Introduction to reading C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength for January.
Wikipedia This has Weston’s speech and Ransom’s translation to the Oyarsa.
Notes
September 17 Doug Olena Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and the Church for February.
Handout 1Handout 2
Presentation
September 24 Don Tosh Science and Faith
Slides
October 1 Marty Mittelstadt Introducing Re-Enchanting the Text by Cheryl Bridges Johns
Notes
October 8 Doug Olena Chapter 2 of Re-Enchanting the Text
Slides
October 15 Don Tosh Chapter 3 of Re-Enchanting the Text
Slides
October 22 Marty Mittelstadt Chapter 4 of Re-Enchanting the Text
Notes
October 29 Marty Mittelstadt Chapter 5 of Re-Enchanting the Text
November 5
Don't forget to turn your clock back.
Lois Olena Chapter 6 of Re-Enchanting the Text
Re-enchanting the Text Notes
Shavuot Slides
Shavuot Notes
November 12 Doug Olena Re-Enchanting the Text Chapter 7, “Foundations of the Enchanted Text of the Holy Scripture”
Notes
November 19 Marty Mittelstadt Re-Enchanting the Text Chapter 8, “Dimensions of the Enchanted Text of the Holy Scripture”
Notes
November 26 Don Tosh Re-Enchanting the Text Chapter 9, “Re-enchanting the People of God”
Notes
December 3 Marty Mittelstadt Advent: The Season of Hope (The Fullness of Time: A Journey Through the Church Year) by Trish Harrison Warren.
Marty will be looking at the first two chapters in the book: Yearning and Longing.
December 10 Doug Olena Advent: The Season of Hope Chapters three and four.
December 17 Marty Mittelstadt Advent: The Season of Hope Chapter five and wrap up.
December 24 No Sunday School Today
December 31 Party at Panera Panera on Battlefield across from the mall, 9 am.

Winter Session 2024

This January, we will look at one book in C. S. Lewis' space trilogy. Doug Olena will hold a conversation about the story and implications of That Hideous Strength. In February, Doug Olena will guide us through an introduction to Artificial Intelligence, the next revolution and how it relates to the Church and us as individual believers.

Date Instructor Topic
January 7 Doug Olena That Hideous Strength
January 14 Doug Olena That Hideous Strength
January 21 Doug Olena That Hideous Strength
January 28 Doug Olena That Hideous Strength
February 4 Luke Gibbs Artificial Intelligence and the Church, the future is upon us.
February 11 Doug Olena Words in the Void: The Holy Spirit, Pentecostal Rationality,
and Artificial General Intelligence
Slides
Paper
February 18 Doug Olena Artificial Intelligence and the Church, the future is upon us.
February 25 Doug Olena Artificial Intelligence and the Church, the future is upon us.