During this time of COVID_19 the Tuesday afternoon home group meets Zoom led from the home of Mike Eggleston & Eileen Murta @ 3:30pm. For Zoom links, please email Mike (egglestonm@hotmail.com)
CURRENT STATUS: Tuesday Home
Church/Bible Study continues meeting Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5 PM, zooming with Mike
and Eileen.
For most of April, we’ll be continuing with studies of the Epistles
of John. March 30 – John chapter 4; April 6, John chapter 5;
April 13, II John 1, and April 2-, III John April 27 is TBD, but the
obvious follow-up would be the third and last of three consecutive
one-chapter-long epistles, namely, Jude.
Meanwhile,
something new, Piglet’s Process, is coming, on seven Thursdays
from 2:00 – 3:15, weekly beginning April 8. This comes through the auspices of
People of Faith for Justice and its newly minted subsidiary, a “Center for
Ecological Civilization on the Central Coast.” Ten persons last autumn,
who are either PFJ members or local environmental activists joined in a study
of the Clayton/Schwartz book, Towards an Ecological Civilization. Following
up on that, attendees proposed that we would be wise to start a satellite to
the world-wide but Claremont-based Institute for Ecological Civilization, and
that an first step in that process would be to offer a beginning zoom primer on
“Process Philosophy.” Process thought stems from the writings of Alfred
North Whitehead and others, and offers a much more dynamic and ecological
understanding of reality than does traditional Christian teaching. It’s
core teachings are that all that exists is constantly emerging, changing,
inter-connected, and creative.
Whiteheadian
thought also stressed the leading role of God in continuing creation and in
working continually for love, creativity, and joy for all creatures at all
levels of reality. (Mike Eggleston, who will convene this first study,
has considered himself a “process theologian” for all his ministry.)
Process thinking can be thoroughly Biblical, although also resonant in many
ways with Daoism, Buddhism, and contemporary physics.
After reviewing
many primers on Process Thought, PFJ and Mike are offering the sweetest and
least technical introduction Mike could find, Piglet’s Process, by
philosopher/pastor Bruce Epperly It’s under 100 pages, and
introduces process thought through a series of fictional dialogues with AA
Milne’s fictional stuffed animal, Piglet, of the Winnie the Pooh
adventures. Hence the title, Piglet’s Process (with a tip of the hat to
John Bunyan’s classic, Pilgrims Progress. The study will take
the twelve easy chapters two at a time, with opening study guides provided by
Mike. Several members from Trinity will be joined by persons from other
faith communities and from wherever we might come, for any and all are
invited. Tell Mike if you are interested (Egglestonm@hotmail.com), get your own book (under $7 on Kindle and starting at $9
in paper from Amazon)), and he will send you the zoom information. It
could be eye-opening, heart-warming good fun. – Mike Eggleston
