Dr. Heath Carter, Associate Professor of American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary, will join us again for a series of Adult Christian Education classes, this time in recognition of the United States’ Semiquincentennial. Dr. Carter, who teaches and writes about the intersection of Christianity and American public life, has previously led programs at First Church on white Christian nationalism (2024) and the 325th anniversary of our congregation (2023). In this 3-week series, Dr. Carter will address pivotal texts and moments in American religious history, focusing on the following themes and texts:

• April 12: City on a Hill? Early Visions & Early Trials
  Readings: John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630)
  The Examination of Anne Hutchinson (1637)

• April 19: The Christianity of this Land and the Christianity of Christ
  Readings: Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Appendix (1845)
  Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (1865)

• April 26: The Sense of our Small Effort: Faithfulness in Dangerous Times
  Readings: Dorothy Day, Loaves and Fishes (excerpts to be provided) (1963)
  ​​​​​​​Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)

Sessions will be held in the MacColl room beginning at 12:40 pm. All are welcome (and reading in advance is not required)!