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Week 1 — FoundationsCurriculum · Summary

Week 2 — The DiagnosisCurriculum · Summary

Week 3 — Stopping, Healing, and Seeing ClearlyCurriculum · Summary Coming Soon

Week 4 — Mind, Speech, and ActionCurriculum · Summary Coming Soon

Week 5 — Finishing the Path; Two Truths and Three SealsCurriculum · Summary Coming Soon

Week 6 — Liberation, Refuge, Love, and What We Are Made OfCurriculum · Summary Coming Soon

Week 7 — The Perfections and Interdependent Co-ArisingCurriculum · Summary Coming Soon

Week 8 — Hearing the Buddha Directly; Looking BackCurriculum · Summary Coming Soon

Prior Topics

All prior topics

The New Testament, Oldest First

Overview of this series

2. Mark 9–16Curriculum · Summary

3. The Oldest Passages: 1 Corinthians 15 and Philippians 2Curriculum · Summary

6. 1 ThessaloniansCurriculum · No summary

7. 1 Corinthians 1–7Curriculum · Summary

8. 1 Corinthians 8–16No curriculum · Summary

9. PhilippiansCurriculum · Summary

11. 2 Corinthians (Part 1)Curriculum · Summary

12. 2 Corinthians (Part 2)No curriculum · Summary

13. Romans 1–5Curriculum · Summary

14. Romans 6–16Curriculum · Summary

15. 2 ThessaloniansCurriculum · No summary

16. 1–3 John, Part 1: Moving Forward After a Church SplitCurriculum · Summary

17. 1–3 John, Part 2: The Theology Behind the Split (Gnosticism)Curriculum · No summary

18. 2 PeterCurriculum · No summary

19. 1 TimothyNo curriculum · No summary

Christian Mystics in Conversation: Julian of Norwich and Thomas Merton

Overview of this series

1. Opening Session: What Is a Christian Mystic?Curriculum · Summary

2. Julian’s Early Revelations and Merton’s Opening ChaptersNo curriculum · No summary

3. Prayer and Contemplation; Joy Despite SufferingNo curriculum · Summary

4. Purification, Renunciation, and TrustCurriculum · Summary

5. Death of the False Self and Emergence of the True SelfCurriculum · No summary

6. Easter Sunday: Holy Saturday and the Limits of Julian’s VisionCurriculum · No summary

7. Final Session (planned): Finishing Julian and MertonNo curriculum · No summary

Prayer Book

Prior Topics

Books and themes the Christians Anonymous book club has studied before

The New Testament, Oldest First
January 2025 – January 2026 · 19 sessions
Christian Mystics in Conversation: Julian of Norwich and Thomas Merton
February 22 – April 2026 (Lent through Eastertide) · 7 sessions

The current study is The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching by Thích Nhất Hạnh.