WHAT IS RELATA?
RELATA is an 8-week opportunity to connect over a meal and in conversation around life’s important questions where everyone’s voice is valued, and we gain insight by sharing our stories.
RELATA is designed for all people: parishioners, neighbors, newcomers, and friends.
RELATA is one way Epiphany is responding to the division and divisiveness so pervasive in our culture.
WHY RELATA?
All things are connected. We know this through science and our general observations. Yet, how we fit into this connected cosmos can feel uncertain. Sometimes we feel like we belong, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes we aspire, and it doesn’t quite work out. Sometimes we fall in love, then heartbreak hits us. Sometimes the operating system through which we create meaning fails us. Why should there be this uncertainty if all things are connected? RELATA is a way of exploring these paradoxes.
WHAT HAPPENS AT RELATA?
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REGISTER FOR JANUARY SESSION HERERELATA is designed to inspire open dialogue within a meaningful flow. These are the questions we will consider over the course of 8 weeks:
WHO IS RELATA FOR?
WHAT IS RELATA NOT?
It’s not a time of teaching, nor is it a didactic exercise or academically oriented.
It is not about doctrines, dogmas, or Christian evangelism.
And you will not be required to wear a blazer or pearls.
WHY EPIPHANY?
For over 100 years, Epiphany Seattle has been a place for nurturing the human spirit. While our foundation is Christian, our focus is the human soul. This is why we say: “Wherever you are on your spiritual journey you have a place at Epiphany.” RELATA is for the spiritual, but not necessarily religious, designed to remind us that we are connected by our stories.