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Adult Faith Development

Our AFD program provides opportunities for adults to be challenged educationally and spiritually around issues related to the UU Principles and Purposes.

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Throughout the year we sponsor forums, courses and workshops that meaningfully connect adults to both Granite Peak and Unitarian Universalism. These offerings take advantage of curricula developed by the UUA and others and also locally designed courses and involve a number of different instructors and facilitators.

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Most sessions are in person one of the congregational buildings although some may be presented by Zoom.

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For more information about our Adult Faith Development program or to request or offer a program, contact Mary Ann Clark, drmaryann49@mac.com.

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2024-25 Programs

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The Adult Faith Development Committee is sponsoring An Introduction to Buddhism presented by Peg Travis on January 29, February 5 and February 12 from 1-2:30 in the Faith Development Building. Many people remember Peg’s meditation group that used to meet at GPUUC. During this class she will discuss Early Buddhist History and the traditions that have developed, Buddhism Today and its evolution in the US, and Meditation techniques and uses for health and spiritual growth.

 

Peg was ordained a Pure Land Priest in Taiwan 2001.  Since, then she has conducted meditation groups in Massachusetts and Arizona. She teaches meditation techniques including mantra, visualization, and breath meditation. Her teachings are a gift to the receiver with the hope that meditation will bring peace and love. She is also trained in various Buddhist traditions including Pure Land and Tibetan practice. 

 

Join Kelsey and Annette to read and explore The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd) Mondays, March 3, 17, and 31 at 10:30. This is a meticulously researched imagining of the probability that Jesus would have had a wife.  The story is primarily about Ana; a young, ambitious, gifted woman with longings far beyond expectations for women of her time and culture. The book gives realistic, detailed descriptions of daily life in Jesus’s time.  It presents Jesus entirely as a common man, while also describing how some of the events in The Bible might have fit into his life. 

 

Copies of this book are available at the Prescott Public Library and Amazon in various formats.

 

Watch for more detailed announcements in the Weekly View.

 

Join Fred Kraps and Jo Sprague in an exploration of this year’s UUA Common Read, Authentic Selves on Wednesdays, March 19, 26 and April 2. Groundbreaking in its depictions of joy and community, Authentic Selves celebrates trans and nonbinary people and their families in stunning photographs and their own words. With a foreword by transgender activist Jazz Jennings and her mom and fellow activist, Jeanette Jennings, this important new book was developed in collaboration with PFLAG National and Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund.

 

So often trans and nonbinary people’s stories are told only through the lens of their struggles and challenges, including their political battles for legal rights, but trans and nonbinary people live rich and fulfilling lives full of joy and community too. Authentic Selves is a sweeping compilation of life stories and portraits of trans and nonbinary people, as well as their partners, parents, children, siblings, and chosen family members.

 

The compelling stories in Authentic Selves provide a glimpse into the real lives, both the challenges and the triumphs, of these remarkable people and their families—people like Senator Sarah McBride, disability justice advocate Parker Glick, drag entertainer TAYLOR ALXNDR, September 11th first responder Jozeppi Angelo Morelli, model Lana Patel, youth activist Elliott Bertrand, and so many others—all of whom are working to create a more just, diverse, and compassionate world.

 

There is one copy of Authentic Selves in the GPUUP library. You can also get a copy from the Prescott Public Library,  Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Bookshop and the UU inSpirit: The UU Book and Gift Shop.

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