Cheri & Dan Gilbert’s Home in NE Portland
Please contact Mike with questions or to RSVP

Our Educational Evenings are offered quarterly as opportunities for our community to deepen into content that is theological, biblical, or practical over the course of 90 minutes. Refreshments are provided and everyone is invited to hang out afterward for conversation and connection. 

Depolarizing Ourselves
For people of faith, civil discourse begins in recognizing the image of God in our conversation partner. Since we are all children of God, our approach should involve mutual respect. Respect, not agreement, is an essential key for a healthy discussion. This workshop addresses how we may inadvertently be complicit in, or possibly even encourage, polarization. Led by Gary Conachan.

Reconciling Atonement
In the year 2024, many Christians are wondering how to make meaning of Jesus’ barbaric and unjust death on a cross as longstanding explanations for its meaning make less and less sense. In this workshop we’ll begin by overviewing the church’s wrestlings with atonement. We’ll then consider contemporary attempts at making meaning for an ancient crucifixion. Finally, we’ll conclude by considering how contemporary meaning for an ancient crucifixion is capable of much goodness, today. Led by Mike Roth.