Sundays @ Trinity

Sunday Morning Programs for Adults

On most Sundays, Trinity hosts a forum, an ongoing discussion series on contemporary public and theological issues, and a drop-in Bible study. All programs are free, and open to the public. The forum presentations are available as podcasts. Click here for both forum and sermon podcasts.

Forums

Sundays at 10:10 am
Each week Trinity offers the Dean’s Forum or the Sunday Forum.
Dean Tracey Lind interviews leaders, teachers, thinkers and artists about faithful living at the Dean’s Forum. The Sunday Forum invites authors, theologians and other public figures to discuss their recent work. View the schedule here.

Discussion groups

Sundays at 10:10 a. m.
Trinity offers small group conversation on issues of concern to the congregation, the Episcopal Church and the wider world. While topics are frequently selected in advance, newcomers are welcome. Upcoming discussion groups include:

• Jesus the Radical
  April 15, 22, 29
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer once said, “We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.” Bonhoeffer’s words echo the radical Jesus who so threatened the authorities of his day that they crucified him. “Ordinary Radical” Shane Claiborne writes, “The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.” Dare to move beyond our own safe understandings of Jesus and explore “Jesus the radical” with Dean Lind in this three-week series.

• Boundless Riches: The Letter to the Ephesians
  May 6, 13, 20
  What does it mean to follow Christ? What hope is there in the Christian message? Saint Paul wrote letters to various early Christian communities with these kinds of concerns in mind. Trinity member and retired Lutheran pastor Bailey Herrington leads this study of Paul’s letter to the early Christian community at Ephesus. In his words, “We will bring to bear our experience, our study of other books and lively discussion. We will read Paul’s words expectantly, that is, expecting to hear new things in new ways. And above all, remember the words of Richard Foster: ‘When we come to the Scripture, we come to be changed, not to amass information.’”

• Images of God
  February 5, 12, 19 and 26
  What does a particular vision of God do to those who believe in it? What difference is my version of God making in my life? Who is it helping and who might it be harming? According to Gordon Kaufman, the central question of theology is a practical question: How are we to live? Explore various images of God and their effects on our lives and our world with Baldwin-Wallace College chaplain and professor of religion the Rev. Dr. John Gordon and Trinity’s adult education coordinator Adam Spencer.
• The Last Week
  March 11, 18, 25
  Using “The Last Week” by Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan as a starting point, Jim Bolce, Trinity’s Education for Ministry mentor, will take a look at the events in Jesus’ final days in Jerusalem, especially as they are described in the Gospel of Mark. The course will consider both the interpretations of Borg and Crossan’s book and common assumptions about the meaning of the Gospel accounts about Jesus’ last week and Crucifixion.

Bible study

Sundays at 10:10 a. m.
Each Sunday, a small group gathers to read and discuss the week’s scripture readings the from Revised Common Lectionary.