During the month of August, we meet in the downstairs fellowship hall where it is cooler, and the services are less structured and feature a topic for open discussion. Please note that children’s Religious Exploration will resume in September, but they are welcome to join us in the fellowship hall this month.

In a recent post on Substack, the theologian, activist, and United Church of Christ minister Susan Thistlethwaite posted the following:

“Liberal theology, let me be very frank, is not up to this current time in the US. I always credit liberal theology for what it did accomplish, namely bringing God into the world (Schleiermacher) and (sometimes) validating women’s experience of the sacred, though largely white women. Liberalism’s mistake was to credit all humans with moral goodness and discount the pervasiveness of sin and evil in the human condition, especially structural evil and the temptations it poses.”

Our discussion topic this week is: Is liberal theology today capable of responding to the authoritarianism and related moral evils that are becoming more prevalent in American society?