Every Sunday
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Adult Learning
Every Sunday @ 10am in Rooms 1/2
Join us in welcoming our new Adult Learning Instructor, Tony Amoury Alkhoury. Tony is a theologian-in-training, educator, and clinical pharmacist with a deeply ecumenical Christian identity. Born and raised in Homs, Syria, Tony grew up in the Syrian Orthodox tradition and explored Catholic and evangelical communities before embracing a faith rooted in multiple Christian traditions.
Tony’s professional background spans over a decade in pharmacy and higher education, having served as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Pharmacy and a youth leader in his local church. In 2016, he moved to the United States to pursue theological studies, earning an MDiv from Harvard University, where he delivered the commencement speech and was twice honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award. He later completed a ThM in Practical Theology at Fuller Seminary and is currently a PhD candidate at Union Theological Seminary, focusing on practical theology and the role of discernment within the Syrian church during times of war and trauma.
Want to get in touch with Tony? Email him here.
How do we read the Bible?: A 7-Week Series
Join our Adult Learning Instructor Tony Amoury Alkhoury for a 7-week series discussing the Bible as a divine, literary, historical and human text. Together we’ll unwind the underlying principles that can inform our reading and help us better understand the essential truths that God communicates through the Word.
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Tony introduces our new learning series with an overview on how, why, and when different portions of the Bible were written and how they were selected to be part of the canonical text–and how that influences how they are read today.
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Week 6 materials:
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West End’s How Do We Read The Bible? series was adapted by Tony Amoury Alkoury using materials from The Bible Project, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to providing free study guides and videos for classroom study. If you would like to support The Bible Project’s work, you can visit their donation page here.
2025
Week 1 January 19 ✓ Week 2 January 26 ✓ Week 3 February 2 ✓ Week 4 February 9 ✓ Week 5 February 16 ✓ Week 6 February 23 Week 7 March 2