Cheri & Dan Gilbert’s Home in NE Portland
Please contact Mike with questions or to RSVP

Our Educational Evenings are offered quarterly as opportunities for our community to deepen into content that is theological, biblical, or practical over the course of 90 minutes. Refreshments are provided and everyone is invited to hang out afterward for conversation and connection. 

Depolarizing Ourselves
For people of faith, civil discourse begins when we are able to recognize the Divine in the political “other.” Seeing others through Divine Love challenges us to navigate our differences with mutual respect for one another. It’s mutual respect, not agreement, that is an essential key for healthy dialogue and connection. This workshop will help us reflect on how we ourselves may inadvertently be complicit in, or possibly even encourage, polarization. Led by Gary Conachan.

Reconciling Atonement
In the year 2024, many Christians are wondering how to make meaning of Jesus’ barbaric and unjust death on a cross as longstanding explanations for its meaning make less and less sense. In this workshop we’ll begin by overviewing the church’s wrestlings with atonement. We’ll then consider contemporary attempts at making meaning for an ancient crucifixion. Finally, we’ll conclude by considering how contemporary meaning for an ancient crucifixion is capable of much goodness, today. Led by Mike Roth.