This Week In Common

Writing students from ESR and Bethany will be reading!

Come support Kate Newlin during her MA thesis presentation

Programmed worship on Thursday, Nov. 6 will be an All Saints Celebration. We will be remembering those who have gone before us, particularly in the last year or so.

If there are friends, loved ones, or other saints that you would like named in this service (both seminary communities are welcome to contribute names), please email them to Jim Higginbotham: higgija@earlham.edu

Please join us as Michael Birkel speaks on "Discernment: Sorting Laundry and Untangling Threads" for the ninth of a worship series on Principles and Practices. November 2 at 11 am in Stout Meetinghouse, continental breakfast at 10:30 am. Childcare provided. Kelly Burk, Director of Campus Ministries, ext. 1386.

Michael Birkel, Interfaith Dialog

Ask not what the community can do for us, ask what we can do for the comunity!

Phil Baisley will lead the annual expedition to the "dark side" in this worship service focusing on "The Valley and the Shadow." Music by Murder By Death, Charlotte Autry, and Nightwish, with a special song for the season by GrandpaJoe.

Please join us for worship in the Quigg Meeting Room 11:20 on Thursdays.

This week we will focus on experiencing the Holy in and through the physical world of nature.

Attention Writers!
Ministry of Writing Colloquium
Friday and Saturday, October 24-25 at ESR
Keynote speaker author Robert Wicks, and presenters including Tom Mullen, Jean Harper and others.
Cost: $25 for students, $65 for non-students before October 11th, $70 after October 11th
Cost includes breakfast, lunch and refreshments

This past summer ESR and Earlham hosted a gathering of Young Adult Friends. Nathan Sebens and other ESR students who were involved will be talking about their experiences.

On Thursday, September 25, the ESR Worship Committee invites one-and-all to come together during the time set aside for Programmed worship in a service of breaking bread together. In this non-traditional Communion service, we encourage people to come to the table with their memories of Communions past, their views on Communion present and hopes for Communion future.

“Deepening the Spiritual Life of a Meeting” Friday September 26, 12-3:30 with lunch provided by ESR (RSVP requested for lunch count)

“Spiritual Journey: Turning to and away from God and Religion,”

Tuesday September 23, 11:20-1 pm. ESR dining room (Lunch is $7 for non ESR folks; the presentation is free)

Mary Ann will present a piece of her own spiritual journey as part of ESR’s weekly common meal. We gather for prayers and lunch at 11:20. Speaker begins at noon.

“Facilitating Sustainable Agreements,”
Monday September 22, 10-12, ending with lunch provided by ESR (RSVP requested for lunch head count)

A few of us are meeting on Wednesday for a Meeting for Worship with attention to Spiritual Healing from 12:00 noon to 12:30 in the Moriuchi room. Since unprogrammed worship meets immediately before this, I thought we could use that to center and then worshipfully walk up to the Moriuchi room. I reserved the room from 11:30 to 1:00, so if you would like, you could center in the Moriuchi room.