Hedgerow Institute: Always on the Verge of More, Mondays from February 10-April 28, 6:00PM-7:30PM, Online and On Site
Theologian Karl Rahner characterizes the human person as “one who questions.” Our images of God and spiritual experiences develop as our brains and bodies mature. Childhood experiences of God moments last within us. Our families and the wonders of our planet home speak to us, open us to the holy in our midst. Growing calls us to name all that is around us and act on all within us.
The teen years bring adulthood near—abstract thinking and sexual awakening. Who do we want others to see in us? Relationships break up and breakthrough. Identity, intimacy, authenticity become our work. Faith and doubt sharpen. We learn the spiritual practices of our people and ask what do I believe? We search for our place in human community, for partners and purpose in life. Disappointments, conflicts, deaths often shatter long-certain faith. God moments may anchor our faith for life.
Who among us can grow beyond the either/or, my way or no way thinking that separates us and instead practice the both/and agonizing work of hearing perspectives not our own and negotiating ways where none exists? We never stop becoming the generative, self-giving persons and communities God calls us to be. Evolution calls us beyond God as reliable as fixed laws of nature into a dynamic interrelating trinity whose love has created all that is and calls us to participate in our becoming. Those who grow into luminous saints among us hold communities together and with love, curiosity and imagination lead into the new.
The class explores human and faith development, drawing on current research and insights from generations of scholars. We will learn from speakers working with young adults and young adults themselves about living an active faith life in the 21st century. And we will explore the pivotal, life-sustaining God moments that we individually experience and seek words and images to describe them. We will work at connecting our God moments with traditions of faith we affirm together.
Andrea Pearson Tande, MA, is Hedgerow Coordinator and Co-Director of Consociate Services with the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, St Paul Province. She has a MA in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and is currently pursuing a DMin from Fordham University.
Theologian Karl Rahner characterizes the human person as “one who questions.” Our images of God and spiritual experiences develop as our brains and bodies mature. Childhood experiences of God moments last within us. Our families and the wonders of our planet home speak to us, open us to the holy in our midst. Growing calls us to name all that is around us and act on all within us.
The teen years bring adulthood near—abstract thinking and sexual awakening. Who do we want others to see in us? Relationships break up and breakthrough. Identity, intimacy, authenticity become our work. Faith and doubt sharpen. We learn the spiritual practices of our people and ask what do I believe? We search for our place in human community, for partners and purpose in life. Disappointments, conflicts, deaths often shatter long-certain faith. God moments may anchor our faith for life.
Who among us can grow beyond the either/or, my way or no way thinking that separates us and instead practice the both/and agonizing work of hearing perspectives not our own and negotiating ways where none exists? We never stop becoming the generative, self-giving persons and communities God calls us to be. Evolution calls us beyond God as reliable as fixed laws of nature into a dynamic interrelating trinity whose love has created all that is and calls us to participate in our becoming. Those who grow into luminous saints among us hold communities together and with love, curiosity and imagination lead into the new.
The class explores human and faith development, drawing on current research and insights from generations of scholars. We will learn from speakers working with young adults and young adults themselves about living an active faith life in the 21st century. And we will explore the pivotal, life-sustaining God moments that we individually experience and seek words and images to describe them. We will work at connecting our God moments with traditions of faith we affirm together.
Andrea Pearson Tande, MA, is Hedgerow Coordinator and Co-Director of Consociate Services with the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, St Paul Province. She has a MA in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and is currently pursuing a DMin from Fordham University.
Theologian Karl Rahner characterizes the human person as “one who questions.” Our images of God and spiritual experiences develop as our brains and bodies mature. Childhood experiences of God moments last within us. Our families and the wonders of our planet home speak to us, open us to the holy in our midst. Growing calls us to name all that is around us and act on all within us.
The teen years bring adulthood near—abstract thinking and sexual awakening. Who do we want others to see in us? Relationships break up and breakthrough. Identity, intimacy, authenticity become our work. Faith and doubt sharpen. We learn the spiritual practices of our people and ask what do I believe? We search for our place in human community, for partners and purpose in life. Disappointments, conflicts, deaths often shatter long-certain faith. God moments may anchor our faith for life.
Who among us can grow beyond the either/or, my way or no way thinking that separates us and instead practice the both/and agonizing work of hearing perspectives not our own and negotiating ways where none exists? We never stop becoming the generative, self-giving persons and communities God calls us to be. Evolution calls us beyond God as reliable as fixed laws of nature into a dynamic interrelating trinity whose love has created all that is and calls us to participate in our becoming. Those who grow into luminous saints among us hold communities together and with love, curiosity and imagination lead into the new.
The class explores human and faith development, drawing on current research and insights from generations of scholars. We will learn from speakers working with young adults and young adults themselves about living an active faith life in the 21st century. And we will explore the pivotal, life-sustaining God moments that we individually experience and seek words and images to describe them. We will work at connecting our God moments with traditions of faith we affirm together.
Andrea Pearson Tande, MA, is Hedgerow Coordinator and Co-Director of Consociate Services with the Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet, St Paul Province. She has a MA in Theology and the Arts from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and is currently pursuing a DMin from Fordham University.