Beginning on January 16th we will begin to show the DVD series, "A History of Christianity, The First Three Thousand Years," by Diarmaid MacDulloch. This series focuses on the activities not of churches, but of ordinary believers who practice and preach the faith in ways that they understand, but that might not correspond to the sense of any formal institutional body. An enjoyable moment in the series is the remark of the frustrated 20th-century Mexican priest who told his bishop that all his parishioners did indeed practice Catholicism, but "in a manner of their own." This is emphatically a history of Christianity, and of Christians, rather than of the church.
Come and join us on Sunday mornings at 9:30 am in Rooms 5/6 for this is a thought-provoking and wonderfully filmed series. You will not want to miss it.
