What: Course
Who: Bill Dols
When: Five Tuesdays
Fees: $125.00, members; $150.00, nonmembers; $100.00, seniors over 65 and full-time students
The poet Wendell Berry, in "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front," counsels us to "Ask the questions that have no answers . . . Plant sequoias . . . Be like the fox . . . Practice resurrection." These Tuesday evenings will be devoted to rescuing the metaphor of "resurrection" from creeds and fundamentalists in search of new meanings in the ordinary and obvious of our lives. We will read between the lines of biblical texts to meet a Jesus who, as living parable of resurrection, awakens us to it happening daily around and within us. We will stretch beyond the "religious" with the help of CG Jung, Mary Oliver, Amos Wilder, Reynolds Price, Pema Chodron, Basho, Anne Morrow Lindberg, Haand others. It will be a dance of questions that entice us to "practice resurrection" rather than cleave to old idols and tired answers.
We intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers for this program.
Bill Dols served parishes in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina as an Episcopal priest for twenty-five years. While pursuing graduate studies in psychology and biblical studies in Berkeley in the 1980s, he began leading seminars for The Guild For Psychological Studies in San Francisco. After eight years as Director of The Educational Center in St. Louis, he moved to Charlotte where, until his retirement in 2001, he served as Minister of Adult Education at The Myers Park Baptist Church. Bill and Shirley now live in Alexandria where they tutor public-school first graders, quilt and garden, paint and read. Bill continues to contribute to The Bible Workbench that he created and edited for twenty years and, on occasion, leads weekend retreats.
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