UPDATED WITH VIDEO & SLIDES
A Wisdom School Saturday workshop led by author and teacher Debie Thomas
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2024, 9:30 A.M.–12:30 P.M., in person in Bloedel Hall and online via Zoom
NOTE: Debie Thomas will also be preaching at the cathedral at all morning services on Sunday, November 10—8, 9, and 11 a.m. Between the 9 and 11 a.m. services, at 10:10 a.m. there will be a special Community Conversation to hold the space and each other as we share what is on our hearts in this challenging time.
Author and teacher Debie Thomas will be at the cathedral on the weekend of November 9 to lead a Saturday Wisdom School workshop. She writes:
Though Christians are called to be an “Easter people,” a people of good news, joy, and resurrection, we are also called to live and speak with authenticity in a world that is not yet what it should be. Sometimes, that call requires us to walk the Emmaus Road, an ancient road that begins with lament before it carries us to hope. Neither despair nor whining, lament is an honest cry from our heart to the heart of a God who weeps over the world’s brokenness, and then offers us a grounded, reality-based hope that does not require denial.
In this half-day workshop, we will explore lament as a healing, justice-oriented practice that will help us find our way to the fullness of resurrection hope. Our time together will include meditation, teaching, journaling, and conversation.
UPDATE: A complete video of the Saturday workshop may be seen below.
Download Debie Thomas's slides here.
About the Presenter
"Writer, seeker, and wonderer" Debie Thomas is the author of A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity and Into the Mess and Other Jesus Stories: Reflections on the Life of Christ and is a columnist and contributing editor for The Christian Century. She is currently a seminarian at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California, and serves as the Minister for Lifelong Formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, CA. Learn more at debiethomas.com
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