Sunday Morning Forum Resources
Beginning on September 14, 2025:
God as Creator
The theme for Forum for the Fall of 2025 will be God's work as Creator and our role as God's creatures in creation.
We will begin on September 14 by looking at how Israel came to understand the God who liberated them from Egypt as the one God who created the universe. We will then examine the vastness of the universe as understood by modern astronomy and the unfolding of life on Earth, in light of our understanding of evolution.
We will turn to the consideration of the fragility and vulnerability of human life, including the problem of the suffering and death of human beings and other creatures. We will conclude before Christmas with a look at the Incarnation of God in light of human finitude, suffering and death.
Our goal is to develop a deeper appreciation for the glory of God's work in creation, and to cultivate the gratitude and humility we should feel toward our Creator, as expressed so beautifully in Psalm 8: When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are humans that you are mindful of them, the children of mortals that you care for them?
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September 14, 2025
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September 21, 2025
September 28, 2025
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February 16, 2025
Dr. Cordelia Moyse
with Daughters of the King
March 9, 2025
Isaiah, Micah & Jeremiah
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March 16, 2025
Ezra
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June 1, 2025
1994 Declaration of ELCA to Jewish Community
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June 8, 2025 Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik
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June 22, 2025
Dabru Emet (Speak Truth)
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Fall of 2024: The Grace of God
October 13, 2024
Augustine of Hippo
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October 20, 2024
Thomas Aquinas
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October 27, 2024
Martin Luther
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November 10, 2024
John Calvin
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November 17, 2024
Blaise Pascal
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November 24, 2024
John Wesley
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December 1, 2024
Soren Kierkegaard
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December 8, 2024
Karl Barth
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Holy Trinity Series
May 5 - June 20, 2024
July 7, 2024
African Women Theologians
with Sitawa Wafula, Part 1
July 14, 2024
African Women Theologians
with Sitawa Wafula, Part 2
July 21, 2024
African Women Theologians
with Sitawa Wafula, Part 3
May 5, 2024
Origen of Alexandria
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May 12, 2024
Tertullian
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May 19, 2024
Athanasius
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May 26, 2024
Gregory of Nyssa
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June 2, 2024
Augustine of Hippo
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June 9, 2024
G. W. F. Hegel
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June 16, 2024
Karl Barth
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June 30, 2024
Sarah Coakley
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Holy Eucharist Series
February 18 - April 28, 2024
February 18, 2024
The Book of Isaiah
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February 25, 2024
The Book of Isaiah
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February 18, 2024
The Book of Isaiah
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February 25, 2
The Book of Isaiah
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March 3, 2024
Justin Martyr & Ambrose of Milan
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March 10, 2024
Augustine of Hippo
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March 17, 2024
Thomas Aquinas
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April 21, 2024
Ulrich Zwingli
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April 28, 2024
John Calvin, Book of Common Prayer
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Fall 2023: Lord, teach us to pray
September 10, 2023
Martin Luther
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September 17, 2023
Faith & Addiction
September 24, 2023
John Calvin
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October 8, 2023
The Binding of Isaac
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October 15, 2023
The Sacrifice of Jephthah's Daughter
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October 22, 2023
The Death of King Saul
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October 29, 2023
The Crucifixion of Jesus
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November 12, 2023
Madame de Guyon
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December 10, 2023
African American Prayers
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Winter & Spring 2023: Lord, teach us to pray
February 5
Origen of Alexandria
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February 12, 2023
Gregory of Nyssa
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March 5, 2023
Desert Mthrs & Fthrs
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March 12, 2023
John Cassian
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March 19, 2023
Augustine of Hippo
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April 16, 2023
Evagrius Ponticus
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April 23, 2023
John Climacus
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May 14, 2023
Maximus Confessor
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May 21, 2023
Meister Eckhart
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June 4, 2023
Richard Rolle
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June 11, 2023
Epistle on Prayer by the author of The Cloud of Unknowing
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June 18, 2023
Julian of Norwich
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June 25, 2023
Walter Hilton
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