Summer Worship Schedule
We will have one worship service at 10:00AM during the month of July. Childcare will be available.
Off the Beaten Path - New Pastor's Book Study Group
OFF THE BEATEN PATH: New Pastors Book/Bible group
Lydia's Impatient Sisters by Luise Schottroff
First meeting: Friday, August 3rd, 9:00 AM, Room 12 in the sanctuary Building
From Pastor Delle: At our last gathering of the Off The Beaten Path Pastor’s Book/Bible Study, our group chose a former seminary professor of mine, Luise Schottroff’s book above. My class read it as a companion piece to two other church history books. I loved this book! Unfortunately this book is not on Kindle or Nook, but I have a few copies available and can get more.
From Amazon: Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.
“This is clearly an important book, and it is going to make many Christians distinctly uncomfortable. Schottroff makes the splendidly researched argument that women in the early church were fully participating members in the body of Christ, and that it was only as the church institutionalized that they were relegated to the role of serving and merely swelling the ranks of the traditional church. Her careful documentation of the first generation of Christian women provides wonderful testimony to the courage and spirit-filled possibilities of the early church. But this is more than just narrative; Schottroff provides an illuminating methodology for how we might understand the Bible as a source of life-giving power for the everyday life of women. As a result Lydia's Impatient Sisters is that rare combination; a scholarly text accessible to both the clergy and the layperson. (Nov.) - Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Please RSVP to revdelle@rinconucc.org or see Pastor Delle for more information.
Lydia's Impatient Sisters by Luise Schottroff
First meeting: Friday, August 3rd, 9:00 AM, Room 12 in the sanctuary Building
From Pastor Delle: At our last gathering of the Off The Beaten Path Pastor’s Book/Bible Study, our group chose a former seminary professor of mine, Luise Schottroff’s book above. My class read it as a companion piece to two other church history books. I loved this book! Unfortunately this book is not on Kindle or Nook, but I have a few copies available and can get more.
From Amazon: Lydia's Impatient Sisters offers a social history of the everyday life of women, setting common experiences of labor, money, illness, and resistance in the context of the Roman imperial society.Luise Schottroff relates this history to important theological topics in New Testament, such as the revelation of God and the daily life of the church. Schottroff's work demonstrates how women were embedded in their social world.
“This is clearly an important book, and it is going to make many Christians distinctly uncomfortable. Schottroff makes the splendidly researched argument that women in the early church were fully participating members in the body of Christ, and that it was only as the church institutionalized that they were relegated to the role of serving and merely swelling the ranks of the traditional church. Her careful documentation of the first generation of Christian women provides wonderful testimony to the courage and spirit-filled possibilities of the early church. But this is more than just narrative; Schottroff provides an illuminating methodology for how we might understand the Bible as a source of life-giving power for the everyday life of women. As a result Lydia's Impatient Sisters is that rare combination; a scholarly text accessible to both the clergy and the layperson. (Nov.) - Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Please RSVP to revdelle@rinconucc.org or see Pastor Delle for more information.