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Learning at Redeemer: Redeemer Explorers

Learning at Redeemer: Redeemer Explorers

At the Redeemer, we know that asking deeper questions and exploring issues of faith help us grow both as individuals and as a community.

Summer Readers

Redeemer Explorers invites you to join a group reading and discussion of Maggie Helwig’s newly published book, Encampment. Maggie is rector of St. Stephen’s in the Fields, College Street. Her book is a powerful, eloquent evocation of the tent community just outside the church’s doors, and the congregation’s relationship to these neighbours making a life for themselves and one another amidst precarious conditions. The book is a passionate call for social justice, and an invitation into more active discipleship. It is a prophetic summons to the kind of action that nurtures genuine hope.
Quotations from the book:
“I am writing this because I want you to understand that this is a world of real people, who struggle and who are kind, who are often special and beautiful in ways that most of our society cannot and does not try to understand. I want you to understand that I have felt safer here than in most other places, hard as it has sometimes been.”
“God is community, God is society, inherently, a society of mutual love, and the grace, which holds space for the others, of radical equality and independence, the society we are very much not, but always called to become.”
“But finally, although this is a story of a small number of people and their relationship to a tiny piece of land outside a tiny church, it is driven by greater powers and principalities….This is the storm in which we live right now; this is the flood that each one of us is trying to survive.”
Summer Readers has been for years a great way to get better acquainted with fellow members of the Redeemer community in a small-group setting, as we reflect together on a topic of shared interest. We hope you’ll take part this year!
You can find the book through the publisher or at some local independent book stores. If the cost of purchase is an issue, Redeemer Explorers will be very happy to reimburse you for the purchase.
Small discussion groups of about a dozen participants each will meet weekly five times, beginning the week of July 14. Both Zoom and in-person options will be available.

Sunday ExplorationsSunday Explorations

Sunday Explorations, our weekly discussions on a variety of topics held at 9:30 AM in the board room, has concluded the Spring series of events. Details about plans for the Autumn will be shared in late Summer.
Violence, Polarization, and Hope for a Better Future

On Wednesday, June 26, 2024 Jon Allen, former Canadian Ambassador to Israel and Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, offered a talk on Violence, Polarization, and Hope for a Better Future. The live stream of the event is available through our YouTube channel at the link below.

About Redeemer Explorers

Our congregation offers a rare and rich diversity of learning opportunities. These include the initiatives of committees and ministry areas like Creation Matters and the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group (ISWG), as well as offerings from outside the parish, such as the courses led by Sylvia Keesmaat and Brian Walsh through Bible Remixed.

Redeemer Explorers aims to complement these offerings with opportunities for small-group discussion and reflection, experiential learning events like labyrinth walks, and occasional one-time programs on specific topics.