Sundays, January 3 – January 31, 9:30 a.m.
Leader: Dr. Jim Hester
After the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, Jim Hester decided to read the Qur’an. By 2018 he had read the Qur’an from cover-to-cover four times in as many translations and looked at related texts and studies of its history and teachings. That led to teaching three different courses on Islam and the Qur’an for the educational program sponsored by his retirement community. This course will survey the life of Muhammad and his major accomplishments. Then we’ll turn to the Qur’an and introduce its major teachings and issues concerning its interpretation. Notes are available on the church website to anyone interested in plowing through pages and pages of pedantic prose! Please contact Jeannie Ford if you need a printed copy of the information.