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.

Two initial offerings debut in the fall.

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.

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.