Food and Formation in Advent

What does it mean to be a Christian? There may be as many ways to answer that question as there are Christians, but for more than 1,600 years, there has been a consensus among churches that our creeds express the essence of our faith. The Book of Common Prayer states that we use two creeds in our worship — The Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed — and that the Athanasian also “proclaims the nature of the Incarnation and of God as Trinity.” While many denominations and churches will supplement these foundational documents with individual statements or confessions of faith, the Anglican tradition has long chosen to stick with these creeds. On Wednesday nights in Advent, we’ll gather at 6:00 for a meal and follow that with a clergy-led discussion of the basic articulations of Christianity and what they can offer us in the modern marketplace of ideas.