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INSIGHTS Presents: Glennon Melton Doyle
April 26, 2016
INSIGHTS Presents Glennon Melton Doyle on April 28 at 6:30 p.m.
Glennon Doyle Melton in her own words: For twenty years I was lost to food and booze and bad love and drugs. I suffered. My family suffered. I had a relatively magical childhood, which added an extra layer of guilt to my pain and confusion. Glennon – why are you all jacked up when you have no excuse to be all jacked up?
My best guess is that I was born with an extra dose of sensitivity to life’s brutality and my own nakedness. I didn’t want to walk through life’s battlefield of rejection, friendship, and tender love naked. So when I was eight years old, I made up my own little world called addiction and I hid there for decades. I felt safe. No one could touch me.
On Mother’s Day 2002, unwed and addicted, I found myself holding a positive pregnancy test. I decided to become a mother and vowed to never again have another drink, cigarette, drug, unhealthy relationship, or food binge. I found myself marrying a man I’d known for ten sober nights.
Twelve years later, I’m still married to that man I barely knew, and I’m also the mother of three kids, two mutts, a geriatric guinea pig and the two most majestic banyan trees you’ve ever seen. I’m also a Sunday School teacher, an award-winning blogger, a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and the founder and president of Together Rising – a non-profit that serves women who need help getting back on their feet. Underneath and on top of all that I’m a Recovering Everything. Every morning, I open my eyes and immediately understand that I am still that girl on the bathroom floor, holding that pregnancy test like a terrifying invitation, trying to decide whether to stay down on the cold floor or get up and walk.
Most days I decide to walk, because I was right when I was little. Life is brutal. But it’s also beautiful. Brutiful, I call it. Life’s brutal and beautiful are woven together so tightly that they can’t be separated. Reject the brutal, reject the beauty. So now I embrace both, and I live well and hard and real.
My job is to wake up every day, say yes to life’s invitation, and let millions of women watch me get up off the floor, walk, stumble, and get back up again.
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Glennon's appearance is made possible by generation donations from Helen Porter, Isabel & John Ed Anthony, Annie Burton & Jack Lankford, Sale by Anna, Jane Wilson, Jane McMullin, Lisa McNeir, Belinda Shults, and Paula & Jim Moseley
The event is sold out, but don't forget to come if you have a ticket!
Power of the Purse
April 19, 2016
Can you help a needy child give a Mother's Day gift to a needy mother?
A lady's purse filled as you wish and wrapped in a gift sack to be given to the children living at Our House to be used as a surprise gift to their Mother on Mother's Day.
Please use a new or gently used purse and fill it with any or all of the following:
- cosmetics
- lotions/potions
- costume jewelry
- a scarf
- a wallet
- a key chain and/or change purse
Elaine Pagels Book Study!
April 17, 2016
The Rev. Dr. Russ Snapp leads a book study on Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels. The book study begins at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12th in Baker Parlor. Join us!
This Sunday! 4/24/16
April 05, 2016
Preaching this Sunday: The Rev. Canon Dr. J. Russell Snapp, Sub-Dean
Adult Formation:
- The Dean's Class: This week? The Resurrection of Jesus. We meet in Morrison Hall at 10:15.
- Living the Questions will meet in Baker Parlor. Dr. Robert Johnston will lead a discussion. This week's topic is "Ranking the Ten Commandments of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas." Attendees are invited but not required to participate. It is usually lively. Bring in your brunch.
- The Bible Challenge meets in the Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. All are welcome to join!
Book Study for Glennon Doyle Continues
April 04, 2016
Please join us as we continue our book study on Glennon Doyle Melton's book, Carry On, Warrior. We meet Fridays at noon in Baker Parlor. Glennon will be speaking on April 28 at the Cathedral as part of the Insights Series. You can find more information about the lecture here.
This Sunday! 4/17/16
April 04, 2016
Preaching this Sunday: The Rev. Amber Carswell
Adult Formation:
- The Dean's Class: This week? Amber Carswell Answers!
- Living the Questions will meet in Baker Parlor. Dr. Robert Johnston will lead a discussion. This week's topic is "The 10 Commandments of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas" Attendees are invited but not required to participate. It is usually lively. Bring in your brunch.
- The Bible Challenge meets in the Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. All are welcome to join!
Walking the Mourner’s Path
April 04, 2016
This is an 8-week grief group for anyone who has suffered a significant loss and would like to process it in a group setting.
Walking the Mourner’s Path is a Christ-centered bereavement support program for those who have faced death and suffered the l, it is distinct from many other programs in that it is Christ-centered, scriptural and spiritually based. Through the 8-week program, mourners learn ways in which they may honor their loved ones, seek spiritual direction and discover God’s promise of comfort in community.
The class will be held on Thursday nights 6:00 – 8:00 pm, April 14 through June 2 at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and the fee is $80. Scholarships are available. Facilitators are Joanna Seibert, Susan Lyon, and Anita Gwatney.
Contact Joanna Seibert to register or for more information.
425-8525 or joannaseibert@me.com
This Sunday! 4/3/16
March 29, 2016
Preaching this Sunday: Ms. Peggy Cromwell, Deacon in Training
Adult Formation:
- The Dean's Class: This week's topic is "Elaine Pagels."
- Doctor Robert Johnston's "Living the Questions" will NOT meet this Sunday.
- The Bible Challenge meets in the Conference Room at 10:15 a.m. All are welcome to join!