Reminder: Covenant Group Wednesday!

Just another reminder: all are welcome to join us this Wednesday for our weekly Covenant Group meeting at 8:00am on the first floor of Divinity Hall. The Covenant Group is meeting every week, but please feel free to attend whenever you can/want...we'd love to see you! A light breakfast will be provided, bring your own drinks. See you Wednesday!

A note of appreciation

I want to express my appreciation to Scott for inviting me and the covenant members for including me in the meeting on Wednesday. Less than a month into my first year at EDS, and I am bracing myself daily for what Tillich refers to as 'ontological shock.' For me doing theology means swimming gracelessly through a sea of jellyfish. The covenant group offered an hour to catch my breath and reaffirm my commitment to Christian community as that supportive place to wrestle through our faith. It was an honor to listen as Alyssa (name?), Thomas and others share their concerns about feeling privileged and confused. One thing in particular impressed me; I heard students share their experiences but refrain from giving advice in the form of solutions. I wonder if premature solutions to problems rob us of deepening our relationship to God and each other. Some questions are meant to be life-long wrestling partners where our most faithful answer is "I don't know."

Reminder: Covenant GroupTomorrow!

For all who are interested (or able), the Covenant Group will meet tomorrow morning at 8:00am on the first floor of Divinity Hall. To restate an earlier post, this is a completely optional meeting; you do NOT need to attend every week in order to be a part of the Covenant Group...come whenever you can, even if its just once this semester! If you can make it, great...see you there!

By the way...the picture above is not a secret area of HDS that you have yet to discover. It is in fact Oxford University, where John Wesley studied, taught and began the small groups that eventually blossomed into the Methodist tradition.

Greetings HDS Methodists!

Welcome to the newly launched blogspot for the HDS Methodists!

My hope is that this site may be used as a means to notify one another about upcoming events, share our reflections and observations, share our joys and/or concerns that we would like lifted up in prayer, or to ask any questions of your peers about HDS, ordination requirements, writing sermons, etc.

Harvard Divinity School is a wonderful institution with a plethora of opportunities to explore and worship with other traditions, and to critically examine our own. As a nondenominational divinity school, however, it is up to us as students to build and maintain a community in our tradition. The foundation of the HDS Methodist community is the Wednesday morning Covenant Group that meets at 8am in Divinity Hall. We hope that you are able to join us for these friendly and informal gatherings. Of course, 8am is an unthinkable meeting time for some among us. Perhaps this site will provide a new medium for all to gather in a 21st century version of the Wesleyan societies.

Please feel free to offer posts of any appropriate material and, by doing so, help get this site off and running! God Bless