November 27, December 4, December 11, December 18
11am-12:15pm at St. John’s on the Lake (Room TBD)
5:30pm-6:45pm at St. Paul’s (Community Room)
RSVP ‘Day’ or ‘Evening’ by November 20th to seth@stpaulsmilwaukee.org so we can order enough copies.
“Time is invaded by mysterious beauty from a world beyond its measurement.” —Vida Dutton Scudder
Poverty. Racial injustice. Child labor. An industrial order dependent on manufacturing war. By the early twentieth century, these societal ills had become the objects of theological reflection and political action for members of the social gospel movement. But while many in the movement drew back from dogma and organized religion, Vida D. Scudder ran in the opposite direction, believing that the world could only be made more just if Christians unleashed the kingdom that waited germinating in the Church’s liturgy and creeds. Social Teachings of the Christian Year is the unflinching articulation of this conviction. Carefully sifting through the liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer, Scudder reveals to us the luminous face of a God who forswears dominating hierarchy within a Trinitarian life, and she asks why the world can’t look more like that God. Brimming with quotations from radicals throughout the Church’s history, Scudder’s godly reflections are a testament to her quest for personal and communal holiness.
About the Author
Vida D. Scudder (1861–1954) was an American educator, writer, and activist in the social gospel movement. One of the first women admitted to graduate studies at Oxford, she became a professor of English literature at Wellesley College. Scudder is today commemorated with a feast day on October 10 in the Episcopal Church (USA).
