Parables: From That Story to My Story

Parables: From That Story to My Story

Summer (8 hrs. or less) | This course is completed

48 Lebanon Street Hanover, NH 03755 United States

Room 212

Repeat

6/26/2017-7/10/2017

2:00 PM-4:00 PM EDT on Mon

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$40.00

3 sessions, 2:00 – 4:00 PM
Mondays, June 26 through July 10, 2017
Hanover Senior Center - Hanover, NH
Course Fee: $40

We are people of stories. But when we try to recount tales from our lives we often get lost in details. There are other ways to tell our stories. One is to make parables: stories that never happened but are always true. The blind man and the elephant, the extravagant sower, Akhfash’s goat, and the widow and the judge are just a few. Parables ask us to suspend logic for a moment so that we can learn a larger truth. We will read parables from around the world and make them our own stories, our own truth. Re-writing parables from our own experience gives us a personal micro-story to tell that will draw people in. A small amount of writing will occur during class time, and participants will be encouraged, but not required to share their work.

There will be a reading packet for this course.

Christine Dyke leads two lives. During the day she works as a Project Coordinator for the Community Health Improvement team at Dartmouth-Hitchcock where she works to build bridges between the hospital and the community and the hospital and the patients in their home communities. Her second life is as the Minister of The Grafton Church in Grafton, VT (UCC & ABC). She has been an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America for 25 years, and has served churches in New York City, Nebraska, and Vermont.