The Spiritual Life & Learning Center

Sunday Intersections
2025-05-18 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Sundays
12:30-1:30 pm
First Community North
Room 101
Adult Sunday school returns to First Community during Sunday Intersections-Where Spirituality, Life, & Learning converge.
Our gatherings will explore a variety of issues through presentations, reflection, and discussion.
This spring, will watch the Prophetic Voices Film Series and discuss.
Feb 9,16, 23: Bonhoeffer
March 2, 9: Reinhold Niebuhr
March 16, 23: Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
March 30, April 6: Dorothy Day
April 13, 20: Not Meeting (Holy Week)
April 27, May 4: Howard Thurman
Registration is not required, but appreciated. Let us know you’ll join us by clicking HERE.
Any questions, please email Jen Bratka, Program Administrator.

Monthly Ministries 4 Movement Marches
2025-06-01 15:00, 2025-07-06 15:00, 2025-08-03 15:00, 2025-09-07 15:00, 2025-10-05 15:00, 2025-11-02 15:00, 2025-12-07 15:00 | Family Missionary Baptist Church, 996 Oakwood Ave, Columbus, OH, United States
Several members of the Racial Equity and Gun Violence Prevention (GVPMT) Ministry Teams participate monthly in a march and worship/information session with members of the Family Missionary Baptist Church and Ministries 4 Movement partners in the South End of Columbus the first Sunday of each month. First Community is recognized as an official partner of Ministries 4 Movement. We continue to work with this community and other partners for sustainment and new opportunities to contribute to justice causes. These marches occur the first Sunday of each month (rain or shine) at 3pm.
If interest in attending these events, please contact: John Girardor for more information, click HERE.

American Democracy, Culture, and Music in Changing Times
2025-07-17 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-07-24 18:00 - 19:30, 2025-07-31 18:00 - 19:30 | First Community South, 1320 Cambridge Blvd, Columbus, OH 43212, Columbus, OH, 43212, United States
Thursdays
July 17, 24, 31, and Aug 7
6-7:30 pm
FC South Library

Join us on Thursday evenings this summer to explore anthems of hope, grace, passion, and courage, that not only entertained us, but also helped to inspire the civil rights movement, and further, laid down a foundation for the changes that followed.
To hear, discuss, and comprehend this music, and its artists, is important to fully understand what these songs meant for our American Democracy and for all our citizens. Striving for Freedom and Justice for all.
REGISTER HERE

Meet Me on God's Dance Floor
2025-07-19 09:30 - 12:30 | First Community South, 1320 Cambridge Blvd, Columbus, OH 43212, Columbus, OH, 43212, United States
Saturdays
July 12 9-11 am on Zoom
July 19 9:30-12:30 In Person
and
July 26 9-11 am on Zoom
First Community South

If God invited you to a party and said, “Everyone in the ballroom will be my special guest…” How would you treat them when you arrived?
This is the question posed by Hafiz in a famous poem.
With Avery Solomon, a good friend of First Community Church, we will explore this question in a three-part inquiry into experience this July.
We will use pointers from various wise beings to help us explore more deeply:

What is a human being—what is a conscious living being?
What is God’s cosmic dance floor?
What is real, what is appearance, and how do we know?
What is this dance-journey about?

Dr. Solomon is a teacher and researcher at Wisdom’s Goldenrod Center for Philosophic Studies in Hector, NY. He gives seminars and classes around the world on spiritual philosophy, ancient wisdom and modern cosmology, science and non-duality. He brings a wide background of experience from many spiritual traditions and teachers and a sense of humor to serious matters and minds.
Dr. Solomon has been involved since 2001 in the Mind-Life conferences of science and Buddhism started by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is the editor of Astronoesis: on the interrelation of Plotinus and cosmology. He has been a student of Anthony Damiani, Paul Brunton, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and His Holiness the Shankaracharya of Kanchipuram, among others.
He is a long-time friend of First Community Church and works closely with students of spiritual philosophy around the world.
Register HERE

American Democracy, Culture, and Music in Changing Times
2025-08-07 18:00 - 19:30 | First Community South, 1320 Cambridge Blvd, Columbus, OH 43212, Columbus, OH, 43212, United States
Thursdays
July 17, 24, 31, and Aug 7
6-7:30 pm
FC South Burkhart Chapel

Join us on Thursday evenings this summer to explore anthems of hope, grace, passion, and courage, that not only entertained us, but also helped to inspire the civil rights movement, and further, laid down a foundation for the changes that followed.
To hear, discuss, and comprehend this music, and its artists, is important to fully understand what these songs meant for our American Democracy and for all our citizens. Striving for Freedom and Justice for all.
REGISTER HERE

Sunday Intersections
2025-09-21 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-09-28 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-05 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-12 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-19 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-10-26 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-11-02 12:30 - 13:30, 2025-11-09 12:30 - 13:30 and 7 more dates | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Sunday Intersections
Sundays
12:30-1:30 pm
First Community North
Room 101
and via Zoom
Adult Sunday school returns to First Community during Sunday Intersections-Where Spirituality, Life, & Learning converge.
Our gatherings will explore a variety of issues through presentations, reflection, and discussion. Topics will range from historical and theological Biblical studies to relevant topics that we encounter every day.
Registration is not required, but appreciated. Let us know you’ll join us by clicking HERE.
The Zoom link will be on your confirmation email.
Any questions, please email Jen Bratka, Program Administrator.

Spiritual Searcher: Pete Enns
2025-10-04 14:00 - 17:00 | First Congregational Church, 444 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH, 43215, United States
Saturday, October 4, 2025
Gladden Lecture Series at
First Congregational Church
2-5 pm
Lecture/workshop and
Meet & Greet with book signing
Sunday, October 5, 2025
Preaching all 3 Services
First Community Church
(click link above for times and locations)
About Dr. Pete Enns

“Peter Enns (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Abram S. Clemens professor of biblical studies at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. He has written numerous books, including The Bible Tells Me So, The Sin of Certainty, and How the Bible Actually Works.”
A collection of Pete’s books are available through the First Community Church Merch website and for sale during the events.
The registration form is for the Saturday presentation.
If you’d like to ride in a carpool van to Saturday’s event, click HERE.
All are welcome to join us at any of the services on Sunday, no registration necessary.
REGISTER HERE

Watch Spiritual-Center.org and FCchurch.com for updates, or to learn more about our ministries.
Any questions, please email JBratka@FCchurch.com

Spiritual Searcher: Pete Enns
2025-10-05 09:00 - 12:00 | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
