Adult Education & Formation

Teach them the statutes and instructions and make known to them the way they are to go and the things they are to do. Exodus 18:20

Formation and deepening knowledge of the Christian faith is an essential part of the Anglican ethos. CSS endeavors to provide illuminating, interesting and challenging educational programs for adults as well as children.

Adult Forums

Sundays at 9:30 am in the Undercroft

Lent Program

Wednesdays:
February 25
March 4, 11, 18, 25

Lent Quiet Day
Saturday, March 28
9:00 am - 12:00 noon

CHRIST & SAINT STEPHEN’S offers an Adult Forum on Sunday mornings at 9:30 am, lasting an hour.  The time is spent in learning, theological reflection, and building Christian community.  You are welcome to come to any session of interest to you and when your schedule allows.

Note: Each Sunday is self-contained. You can join at any time without worrying about what went before.

6:00 pm Worship: Holy Eucharist in the Church

6:30 pm Fellowship: Dinner in the Undercroft

7:00–8:00 pm Formation: Formation Session in the Undercroft

Book: Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now
by Walter Brueggemann

Popular author Walter Brueggemann writes that the Sabbath is not simply about keeping rules but rather about becoming a whole person and restoring a whole society. Brueggemann calls out our 24/7 society of consumption, a society in which we live to achieve, accomplish, perform, and possess. We want more, own more, use more, eat more, and drink more. Brueggemann shows readers how keeping the Sabbath allows us to break this restless cycle and focus on what is truly important: God, other people, all life.

Sabbath as Resistance offers a transformative vision of the wholeness God intends, giving world-weary Christians a glimpse of a more fulfilling and simpler life through Sabbath observance.

Copies of Sabbath as Resistance may be purchased at The Strand, 2020 Broadway, between 69th & 70th Streets.

On Saturday, March 28 from 9:00 am - 12 noon, we will host a quiet day at Christ and St. Stephen’s. Each hour begins with a brief, 5-10 minute guided session, and then participants have the remaining time to spend in quiet meditation in the church, garden, walking in the park, working on a craft, art project, or journaling in the loft or undercroft, or any other spiritual practice.  Please register on the sign-up sheet at the back of the church, and at least 10 participants are needed to be registered in order to confirm and have the quiet day.  Please bring any supplies needed to make the time meaningful.

Book/Video Forums

During Advent, Lent and Eastertide, adults join in evening discussion groups centered on novels, theological works, and film and video series.