EfM: Reflections are five to ten week formation courses for small-group study and congregational use. They invite people to gather onsite or online to theologically reflect upon experience, church tradition, cultural sources, and deep questions.

How to Lead an EfM: Reflections Course

EfM: Reflections short courses are designed to be led by qualified EfM Mentors and Alumni. Follow these steps to become a facilitator and start a group.

1. Complete the Facilitator Workshop: Enroll in an upcoming EfM Facilitator Workshop through the EfM Master Calendar.

2. Become Qualified: Complete the workshop and receive your qualification to facilitate an EfM: Reflections course.

3. Notify EfM: Contact the EfM Director of Administration to let us know you plan to start a group.

4. Complete the Enrollment Form: Complete the EfM: Reflections Facilitator Enrollment Form.

5. Gather Your Group: Recruit 6–12 participants for your course.

6. Share the Registration Link: The EfM Director of Administration will provide a registration link for your participants.

7. Participants Register: Participants use the link to register and pay the course fee.

8. Begin Your Course: Once your participants are registered, you're ready to begin your EfM: Reflections experience!

2026–2027

Tara Soughers: a Theology for Trans Allies | 5 weeks

The more that we learn about gender, the more complicated things become. Like most binaries, the binary of gender (male/female) is inadequate for describing the experience of all people. In this path, we explore how accepting the gender diversity present in people can affect and expand our understanding not just of humanity but of the God who created us. Using Tara Soughers’ book, Beyond a Binary God: Toward a Theology for Trans* Theology, we will explore what it means to be made in the image of a God who is three and one, but never two.

Catharine Meeks: Meditations for Racial Healing | 8 weeks.

Using Catharine's Book Meditations for Racial Healing, participants will reflect together through this much-needed meditative guide for the weary and frustrated, arguing that by looking inward and at each other clearly and with honesty, good people of all backgrounds can forge a long term and individual path to making a difference. With thoughtful direction, she takes the reader on the trajectory from self-awareness to recognition of the past to a new and individual way forward. Meditation topics include how to work through fear and rage, how stories can destroy but can also help heal, honoring your ancestors while looking toward the future, what it really means to love one another and the true meaning of social justice.

Rebecca Abts Wright: Old Testament, New Perspectives | 7 weeks

Available in the spring of 2027, the Rev. Rebecca Abts Wright, Ph.D., C. K. Benedict Professor of Old Testament, Emerita, will take you through the Old Testament with fresh eyes. Learn how centuries of translations have altered original texts and how languages have evolved over time to change the meaning of some of the Bible stories we have known all our lives. Wright digs deep into the true origins and applications of the laws from the Old Testament and shows us how love is the most challenging law of all.