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Current ComeniusActivities
Members of the Comenius Fellowship Reading and Discussion Group
Monterey, CA: On June 30, 1999,the Comenius Fellowship inaugurated its first weeklyactivity,aReading and DiscussionGroup,with Karen Armstrong'scontroversial work, A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism,Christianity and Islam.
On October 13, 1999, we began discussing our secondselection, Jack Miles's GOD: A Biography, which treats the Hebrewscriptures as literature and tracks the development of God as a literarycharacter who fuses contradictory traits. On January 19, 2000, we startedour third selection, Bishop John Shelby Spong's Why Christianity MustChange or Die, which presents a vision of changes Spong feels necessaryfor the survival of the Christian church in the modern world. We next readMarcus Borg's Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, whichattempts to sketch a rough portrait of Jesus as a "spirit person." On July5, 2000, we began our discussion ofThe Four Witnesses, by Rev.Robin Griffith-Jones, which examines the Gospels as "The Four Greatest Stories Ever Told"--each written for a specific communityand for specific purposes, rather than simply as source material for compilinga "composite photo" of the historical Jesus. In October 2000, we beganRabbi Neil Gillman's The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortalityin Jewish Thought. Our next selection will be JaroslavPelikan's Jesus through the Centuries.
Meetings:Unless otherwise stated, theComenius Fellowship Reading and Discussion Group meetsWednesday evenings at 7:00p.m. at the homeof Billand Connie Dallmann.
Our next meeting will be on September 19, 2001,when we will discuss Chapters 6 and 7 of Jaroslav Pelikan'sJesus through the Centuries.
If you are interested in participating,please call SteveSolomon at (831) 649-1764 or write him atsrsgm@pacbell.net.
Wichita, KS: For information about or to make suggestionsfor activities in Wichita, Kansas, contact JayPrice atDrHistory@aol.com.