QAD (Question and Discussion)
QAD is an accumulation of people of varying ages from 40-80. This provides an educational (and sometimes humorous) interaction within the class. Our backgrounds are all different, as are our interests, but we appear to allow each other to shine when appropriate. Perhaps it is this difference of personalities that enable us to moderate each other’s responses. Some say very little, and some speak more often, but we all are appreciated. We are a diverse, caring, and fun-loving group of adults. We enjoy the connects we have made within the class and often enjoy each other’s company outside of church. As an aside, we also have some very good cooks in our class, and most weeks we enjoy the snacks they prepare.
Fall Group Discussions
The Holy Spirit: Wind, Breath, and Energy That Hold All Things Together (August 30 - October 4)
Most of us grew up with an image of the Holy Spirit as a kind of celestial mist — the shy, mysterious third member of a heavenly committee. This class invites something deeper and, I believe, truer: an encounter that is both ancient and astonishing, rooted in Scripture and illuminated by what we now understand about energy, evolution, and the nature of reality.
We are not discarding what the church has always known. We are recovering what it has sometimes forgotten: that the Spirit is not a secondary doctrine, but the very energy through which the divine reality moves in creation, in community, and in us.