Adult Education

• Do you want to know about Scripture?
  
  
• Do you want to know about Jesus Christ?
  
  
• Do you want to know about the traditions of the church?
  
  
• Do you want to know how to apply God-given reason to the challenges of your life?

Saint Peter's is committed to lifelong formation and learning and offers three types of adult education:

• Sundays from 9:00 - 9:40 am Adult Sunday School
• Sundays at 11:30 Occasional Adult Forums
• Advent and Lenten Series

For information on our current and upcoming adult education programs, please subscribe to our weekly e-newsletter.

 

Recent Adult Education Programs

 

Adult Sunday School

Books of the Bible: Prophets and Apostles

A nine-part examination of three forms of scripture from the Hebrew and Christian tradition. We will examine the Book of Amos, the Gospel of Mark and Paul's letters to the Ephesians and Colossians.

 

Bible 101

What is the Bible? Who wrote it? When was it written? How do we use it?

 

Sin, Soul and Sex

A nine part series that examine the traditional understanding of three classic Christian beliefs and the contemporary challenges.

 

Doubt?

Do you sometimes have doubts about your faith? Is it wrong to doubt? Do you worry about your doubts? These sessions explore the relationship of doubt to faith within the context of Christian community.

 

 

Adult Forums

Women and the Episcopal Church

 

 

 

Today the Episcopal Church has a female Presiding Bishop and Saint Peter's has a female rector, but it wasn't always so. For much of the history of the church, women were denied participation in the governance and ministry of the church. Women exercised important ministries in the church.

The session will examine the changing role ofwomen in the life and witness of the Episcopal Church with particular emphasis on the important role of the organization now known as the Episcopal Church Women.

 

Reflections on General Convention

The General Convention is the primary legislative body of the Episcopal Church and meets every three year. It met this past summer in Anaheim, California and took many actions that will effect who we are as Episcopalians and Anglicans. Come and learn what the church decided in General Convention and the responses to its actions.

 

 

A Lay Persons Guide to Church Architecture

Have you ever wondered - Why churches look like they do? Or what the different parts of the church are called? Or why we Episcopalians have to use special names for all the parts of the church? Come and explore the world of church architecture.

 

Seamen's Church Institute

The Rev. Marge Lindstrom, Chaplain at Port Newark will discuss the ministry of the Seamen's Church Institute and how we can support its ministry. Founded in 1834 and affiliated with the Episcopal Church, the Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey (SCI) is the largest, most comprehensive mariners' agency in North America. Annually, its chaplains visit 3,400 vessels in the Port of New York and New Jersey and along 2,200 miles of America’s inland waterways. SCI's maritime education facilities provide navigational training to nearly 1,600 mariners each year through simulator-based facilities located in Houston, TX and Paducah, KY. The Institute and its maritime attorneys are recognized as leading advocates for merchant mariners.

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