Downtown Discourse
Conversations that Matter
Downtown Discourse evenings are free and open to the public.
All events begin at 7:00 p.m.
All events begin at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
All too often, the Book of Revelation is assumed to be a prediction of the end of the world, setting out an inevitable timescale of events which can either accept or (at our peril) reject. Read in this way, it fails to offer any real help in our living as distinctive disciples in contemporary culture.
But if we attend carefully to the text, we find that it originally offered very specific encouragement for its first readers to live distinctively in the light of the future, and equipped them to be critical of their own culture and its demands.
How can we read Revelation better than flattening into an ‘end-times chronology’ by attending more carefully to what it says—and what riches will it then offer us as followers of Jesus in our own time and culture?
But if we attend carefully to the text, we find that it originally offered very specific encouragement for its first readers to live distinctively in the light of the future, and equipped them to be critical of their own culture and its demands.
How can we read Revelation better than flattening into an ‘end-times chronology’ by attending more carefully to what it says—and what riches will it then offer us as followers of Jesus in our own time and culture?
* Nursery is available for children 3 and under. Please contact roxanneseither@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
Featured Local Business:
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Save the dates for these upcoming
downtown discourses:
Wednesday evenings in December - Advent Evensong
Thursday, January 17 - Megan Almon, discussion on bioethics
Thursday, February 7 - Kristen Waggoner and Jack Philips (owner of Masterpiece Bakery),
presentation with moderated question and answer session
Thursday, March 21 - Dr. Sandra Glahn, Vindicating the Vixens
Thursday, January 17 - Megan Almon, discussion on bioethics
Thursday, February 7 - Kristen Waggoner and Jack Philips (owner of Masterpiece Bakery),
presentation with moderated question and answer session
Thursday, March 21 - Dr. Sandra Glahn, Vindicating the Vixens
