Calendar
Citylights Calendar of Events and Programs – This is an open community, all are welcome!
Outline of our Saturday morning gatherings:
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class with Carmen Rusu (all are welcome, donation $10) every 1st and 3rd Wednesday only.
11:00 BREAKFAST (unless noted otherwise)
11:30 breakfast ends and SERVICE STARTS
1:00 SERVICE ENDS followed by 1 hour of great convo and cleanup
2:00 WE ARE OUT
As we like to say, don’t come late, don’t come on time, come early. The best part of gathering is meeting people and sensing the silence which God is about to fill.
*Location at AFSC unless noted otherwise, directions HERE.
*We have breakfast at 10:45 every Saturday, unless noted otherwise.
September 17 - The Power of Showing Up, with Pastor Samir and Rev. Vince
September 24 - Creating with Jesus and Caslon, with Caslon Bevington
October 1 - Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 1): Protected Texts, with Rev. Vince Anderson
October 8 - Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 2), with Rev. Vince Anderson
October 15 - Special Guest: Frank Schaeffer!
October 22 - Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 3), with Madelyn
October 29 - Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 4), with Julijana Kojic (Citylights Family Meeting, no breakfast, everyone is invited, bring your dish for POTLUCK)
November 5 – Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 5), with Bowie Snodgrass
November 12 - Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 6), with Vince Anderson
November 19 - Sex, Gender, and Power (Part 7), with Samir Selmanovic
November 26 – Gladness, with Sarah Edwards
December 3 - Waiting for a Miracle (Part 1): Our Narrative and God’s Counter-Narrative, with Allison Burtch
December 10 - Waiting for a Miracle (Part 2): The Beginning Is Near , with Samir Selmanovic
December 17 - Waiting for a Miracle (Part 3): Imagination Recovery, with Ashley Curl & Co.
December 25 - Waiting for a Miracle (Part 4): Magic of Christianity, with Samir Selmanovic
December 31 - Waiting for a Miracle (Part 5): Cleansing and Hoping, with Elisa and Carmen Dumitrescu
January 7 - Mess With Samir
January 14 – Inventive Age, with Doug Pagitt
January 21 -I Have Called You Friends, with Rev. Vince Anderson
January 28 – Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 1): Learning to Love Well, with Samir Selmanovic
February 4 - Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 2): The Lunatics Are Running the Asylum – Jesus and the Question of Authority,with Rev. Vince Anderson
February 11 - Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 3), with Bo Eberle
February 18 – Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 4), with Amichai Lau-Lavie
February 25 – CITYLIGHTS GETAWAY – NO SERVICE AT QUAKER CENTER (guest speaker: Peter Rollins)
March 3 - Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 5): How Do You Stack Up, with Bowie Snodgrass
March 10 – Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 6): Turn the Other Cheek and Other Nonsense Jesus Said, with Samir Selmanovic
March 17 - Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 7): Was Jesus a Cherry Picker, with Jay Baker
March 24 – Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 8), with Milorad Kojic
March 31 - Meeting Jesus for the First Time Again (Part 9), with Stephen Phelps
April 7 – EASTER WITH CITYLIGHTS
April 14 - Moses the Artist. Jesus the Christ, with Rev. Vince Anderson
April 21 - Journeying Well, with Carmen Rusu
April 28 - Which One of These Things Doesn’t Belong: Rereading the Most Confusing Parables of Jesus, with Bo Eberle
May 5 - Citylights in the Labyrinth (Battery Park), special service with Ashley Curl, NO SERVICE AT QUAKER CENTER
May 12 - Jesus’ Family Values, with Rev. Vince Anderson
May 19 - The Miracles of the Christian Story and the Stories of the Miracle, with Marciana Popescu
May 26 - Take and Give: Questions about God, with Karen Ong
June 2 – Christianity After Religion (Part 1): I sing a song of the saints of God, with Bowie Snodgrass
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class
June 9 - Christianity After Religion (Part 2): Centering Prayer, My Path to Contemplation, with Mairim Pina
June 16 - Christianity After Religion (Part 3), with Karen Ong
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class
June 23 - Christianity After Religion (Part 4): Practice of Gratitude and Mindfulness, with Sarah McCash
June 30 - Christianity After Religion (Part 5): The Conscious Community of the Faith/less, with Bo Eberle
July 7 - Christianity After Religion (Part 6): Spirituality After Spiritual Disciplines, with Cornel Rusu
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class
July 14 – Psychology, Anthropology, and Commonsensology of Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics (Part 1), with Samir Selmanovic
July 21 - Psychology, Anthropology, and Commonsensology of Why Good People Are Divided by Religion and Politics (Part 2), with Samir Selmanovic
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class
July 28 – Getting Ready for August!, with Tanja Dejanova
AUGUST: Summer Break – Citylights Community will not have regular services during the month of August. There will be trips, apartment gatherings, outings and other activities. Our first service will be September 8.
Sep 8 – Epistle to Galatians (Chapter 1), with Rev. Vince Anderson
Sep 15 - Epistle to Galatians (Chapter 2), with Pastor Jay Bakker
Sep 22 - Epistle to Galatians (Chapter 3), with Kerlin Richter
Sep 29 - Epistle to Galatians (Chapter 4), TBD
Oct 6 - Epistle to Galatians (Chapter 5), TBD
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class
Oct 13 - Epistle to Galatians (Chapter 6), TBD
Oct 20 – Book of Ecclesiastes (Part 1), with Samir Selmanovic
9:30 – 10:45 Yoga Class
Oct 27 - Book of Ecclesiastes (Part 2), TBD
