Study Materials available from Pillars Course

Our latest course was Pillars of the Church: Augustine, Gregory of Nazianzus, and Ephrem the Syrian. This was a study of the most important figures in the Latin and Syriac traditions, as well as one of the most prominent from the Greek tradition.

If this topic interests you, we are making the course materials available online for independent study. The materials include a schedule of readings, eight video lectures on the reading, and eight written reflections. We are charging $20 for an individual and $100 for a group of up to 20 people.

For more information, visit our Study Materials page.

Early Church at Prayer and Worship - Registration Open

We are now accepting registrants for our spring seminar: The Early Church at Prayer and Worship. In this seminar, as you would expect, we will examine the early church's prayer and worship. We will examine a variety of sources from roughly the first five hundred years of the church, including Eastern monks, a Western bishop, an early liturgy, and the New Testament. Out of all of the seminars so far, this is the one I am most excited about. I am looking forward to how it will transform my own prayer and worship, especially as we begin the season of Lent during the course.

The seminar will run from February 1st through March 22nd, 2010. It will be hosted at Hampton Presbyterian Church in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania (north of Pittsburgh) and offered online.

Check out the Seminars page on our website for more information.

Arts Group

On October 17th, ACFI will be offering a discussion group for artists in the Pittsburgh area (location TBA). Tim Becker offers the following description:

For serious Christian artists. painters, photographers, musicians, writers, actors, +. To collaborate on an outrageous vision of everything. To send art to the frontier of existence - taking captive every thought, note, angle, color.

"pseudo-dionysius will blow your mind. that's a fact." -pseudo-dionysius*

Check it out, sign up, and more** at the Arts Group Page.

*Editor's Note: I think Tim means Pseudo-Pseudo-Dionysius

**Actually, not more.

Update: the cost of this group has been lowered to $15.

Eastern Christianity Study Course Available

We are happy to announce that our seminar on Eastern Christianity is now available as a course for individual or group use. It includes a suggested schedule of readings, audio lectures, and written reflections on the readings.

The course could be used to study independently at your own pace, or as the curriculum for a small group or Sunday school class. The cost is $15 for an individual or $75 for a group of up to 20 people.

For more information, please visit the Study Materials page on our website.