Charting Our Spiritual Journey

Benvenuto Cellini is quoted as saying that we should always be prepared to tell the particulars of our life. This is true for our spiritual lives as well, but we rarely take the time to chart the journey that has brought us to where we are today.

Participants in this course will examine where we started: what ideas and beliefs formed our own thoughts about God, faith and community, as well as why we left that faith (if we did). We will reflect on how we have travelled: what we did to search for what was missing, what attracted us (or not). We will consider what we found at different waystations, how we finally found Quakers and why we stay. Finally, we will examine how this journey shows in our ministry, in the ways that our lives speak.

Participants will leave the course with a better understanding of the journey they have taken to arrive at their present spiritual state, as well as a deep understanding of the journeys of the others.

This full-day online course will include an introduction and guidance from the tutor, discussions and worship-sharing in the full group and small groups, and periods of personal reflection away from the screen.