The Cowichan Centre for Progressive Christianity is adding a new program this year.
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As we go through life, most of us are exposed to two very different ways of learning, academic learning and learning from experience. When we were children, our parents probably told us not to touch the stove as it was hot and would hurt us. Most of us probably touched it in any case to check the validity of that [academic] lesson and found [by experience] that it was indeed correct! However, if our parents had not told us what to expect, we might have been less cautious and had a more painful experience.

Both types of learning are valid, for some of us one way works best, for others the alternative way. For most of us, our current knowledge base is derived from both. The same is true for our spiritual journey. For those of us who have attended church regularly through life or studied theology, religion or scripture, a large part may be built from academic learning. For those of us who have done none-of-the-above and have lived our lives in a secular manner, our spirituality would have come by way of a multitude of experiences.

Many of these spiritual experiences will have been mysterious or even surreal but they will have told us, sometimes in a whisper and sometimes in a great shout, that there are things we do not understand but that we want to experience again or find out more about.

Click here for a schedule of courses for the fall/winter/spring of 2010/2011

Note that the afternoon sessions of Exploring and Living Our Faith have been cancelled starting March 1st