The Spiritual Life & Learning Center

Clergy-Led Bible Study for Adults
2022-09-14 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Join us for a Bible study each Wednesday from 6:00pm to 7:00pm in Grace Hall at First Community North. Bible studies will be led by First Community clergy each week. Teachers and topics will rotate. Clergy include Rev. Glen Miles, Rev. Mary Kate Buchanan, Rev. Sarah Kientz, and Rev. Tim VanSant.
*Before the Bible study, you are also invited to a light supper at 5:30 PM and a short worship service with devotion at 5:45 PM. Bible study begins at 6:00 PM.
REGISTRATION: No registration needed. Just show up!

Gentle Hatha Yoga and Mindfulness Class
2022-09-14 10:00 - 11:00 | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
Every Wednesday, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
This one-hour Hatha yoga & mindfulness class format includes a gentle movement yoga posture practice for students of all ages, sizes, and fitness levels. Class sequencing includes easeful body movement, a mindfulness component such as breath practice, contemplation, meditation, or guided imagery and ends with a quiet deep relaxation. Yoga improves strength, balance, flexibility, helps ease symptoms of arthritis, offers relaxation benefits and much more. Students must be able to easily get down onto the floor and back up again. Bare feet recommended.
We will meet in Grace Hall at First Community North.
Please bring with you to every class: yoga mat, 1 blanket, 1 large bath towel, 1 yoga strap (or bathrobe belt or long scarf). Optional props: 2 yoga blocks.
Instructor will be Jodi Patton, RYT Yoga Teacher, Reiki Master, Spiritual Director Trainee
To register, email Jodi Patton at jodilynne737@gmail.com

Clergy Conversations: Rev. Glen Miles interviews Pastor Philip Gulley
2022-09-12 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Monday September 12
7-8 pm
on Zoom
Hour-long Zoom interviews with people selected by our First Community clergy.
Join us as Rev. Glen Miles kicks off a new event series for us! Clergy Conversations will be a series of 5 events throughout the year when each of the five First Community clergy members will get to interview someone via Zoom who inspires them. Rev. Glen Miles will be interviewing Philip Gulley to start off the series!
ABOUT PHILIP GULLEY:
Philip Gulley is a Quaker pastor, writer, and speaker from Danville, Indiana. Gulley has written 22 books, including the Harmony series recounting life in the eccentric Quaker community of Harmony, Indiana and the best-selling Porch Talk essay series. Gulley’s memoir, I Love You, Miss Huddleston: And Other Inappropriate Longings of My Indiana Childhood, was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor. In addition, Gulley, with co-author James Mulholland, shared their progressive spirituality in the books If Grace Is True and If God Is Love, followed by Gulley’s books If the Church Were Christian and The Evolution of Faith.
In Living the Quaker Way: Timeless Wisdom For a Better Life Today, Gulley offers the opportunity to participate in a world where the values of the Quaker way bring equity, peace, healing, and hope. Living the Quaker Way invites readers to encounter the defining commitments of the Religious Society of Friends–simplicity, peace, integrity, community and equality, and shows how those ideals can be incorporated in personal and public life to bring renewal and eliminate the clutter that is keeping us from deeper spirituality.
In his most recently published work of non-fiction, Unlearning God: How Unbelieving Helped Me Believe, Gulley describes the process of spiritual growth, especially the re-interpretation of the earliest principles we learned about God. Gulley teaches the reader to let go, or unlearn these burdensome obstacles in their faith so that they can forge a more authentic relationship with God.

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Full Moon Labyrinth Walks
2022-09-10 17:30 - 18:30 | First Community North, 3777 Dublin Rd, Columbus, OH, 43221, United States
On each full moon, a spiritual director will guide participants through our outdoor labyrinth. This is a weather dependent event and will be called off due to inclement weather.
Register HERE.
