L'Abri Lectures - Starting Soon!
Join us Friday, May 26th for our first lecture in-person or on Zoom.
Join us next Friday, May 26th as we kick off our summer lecture series!
A full lecture schedule will be finalized soon, but see below for a description of our first two evenings.
As always, you can join us for our lectures in-person or on Zoom. If you are attending in person, please come to the Manor House at 7:30pm for coffee and dessert. Otherwise, click the link below.
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26th May — Relationships where Grace is in Place
Vera Marbach, L’Abri South Africa (in-person!)
We want to get our relationships right, particularly our romantic and family relationships, but often end up tired, discouraged, and feeling like failures. A primary cause is when we set out to control & change others, making rules (mostly unwritten) and attempting to modify their attitudes & responses. Understanding the difference between God's job and ours, allowing grace to replace manipulation & legislation, is a step to healthy relationships. We will look at the difference between grace-filled relationships and curse-filled relationships, where "curse" is an acronym for …. come to the lecture and find out.
2nd June — Aren't They All Just Dead White Males? Why Read The Classics?
Peter Merz, L'Abri Worker
The books known as ‘the classics’ can seem intimidating, boring or culturally oppressive. However, they tend to represent the most psychologically and thematically complex, as well as the most technically accomplished and aesthetically satisfying, depictions of the reality in which we find ourselves. In spending time with these works throughout our lives, they and their authors become our teachers and friends, as we participate in ‘the great conversation’ that has been going on for centuries. We can receive solace, goodness, beauty, truth, growth in empathy for others, and experience delight and enjoyment. In pointing us toward that which is real, they can help to point us to God.