Join us as we embark on a new worship series, Fully Alive – Sundays January 12 through March 5, 2025. Using the concept of the seven deadly sins, we’ll explore positive opposites to the ancient list of vices updated for the modern world. Can the concept of sin provide signposts and supports that might help us become the kind of humans that the world might need right now?
This book shines a light on why Christianity is more relevant than ever in modern life. Using the structure of the seven deadly sins, each chapter offers a positive opposite to the ancient list of vices, updated for the modern world. Can we journey from status anxiety to Belovedness? From polarization to peacemaking? From distraction to attention? Oldfield writes about tending to our souls, staying loyal to our values and seeking spiritual core strength in these trembling times.
This series will be challenging, calling us to take an honest look at how we live out our faith. It will also give us an opportunity to view life from a perspective thatâs different from the one to which weâre typically accustomed. Fully Alive was written for a non-religious audience and makes an argument for a religious life to provide a foundation that helps us live fully alive.
The book is sure to spark conversation. Join the discussion group on Tuesday evenings in The Parlor as we dig deeper into this challenging book.
From the author: “This book will introduce you to themes, rituals and rhythms that I’ve found life-giving and that you might like to experiment with. I’ll take you on a tour of these via my own life, because it is only in practice that they have come to make sense to me. I hope this book functions as an antihistamine for an allergy to Faith, enabling you to get past the thorns to smell the flowers, but I am not here to defend the worst parts (and there are many). What I hope to do is help you understand, despite the abuse and bigotry and power-hungry politics that are too often the public story of my faith, what on earth I still see in it. Why I keep finding in it signposts and support to become the kind of human that I think this world might need.”
Read the first 33 pages of the book here.
If you choose to read the book, be forewarned: Oldfield isnât afraid of using âsweary words.â