Adult Formation Series: Gaza Reflections

Faith, Grief, and Moral Courage in a Time of War
Sundays in August at 9:15am

This August, Saint Andrew’s will host a series of small group conversations on Sunday mornings at 9:15am in Trinity Commons Student Center to reflect together on how our faith helps us grapple with the realities of the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the moral weight of our current moment. These guided sessions will provide a space for lament, reflection, and prayerful discernment. How are we being shaped by the toll of these events? How might Christ be calling us forward?

As a companion resource for small group discussion, we will read One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (2025), a powerful new work by award-winning journalist and novelist Omar El Akkad. The book offers a searing exploration of complicity, silence, and moral reckoning in the face of atrocity. Copies are available via Goodreads via the link below.

Given the tumultuous times in our country and world, we know that many are suffering—emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually. Fear of the unknown can lead to what some name as moral injury—a wound that comes when events deeply violate our core beliefs and values. These wounds often manifest as persistent sadness, anxiety, and a heavy sense of disorientation.

In the face of such despair—wars and rumors of wars, political chaos, social upheaval, and overall despair—Christ calls us to stand in solidarity with our siblings of all faith traditions, ethnicities, genders, and identities. Christ also offers us peace—a peace that passes understanding—and calls us to extend that peace to others.