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Imagining Faith: Metaphors as Spiritual Practice

In this members-exclusive workshop, guided by Dr. Susan Brooks, we’ll explore the surprising power of metaphor as a spiritual practice. We’ll reflect on biblical metaphors—both familiar and overlooked—and learn from Jesus’ own use of parables. 

What you’ll gain:

A deep dive into how language and metaphor can deepen and enrich our understanding of God.
A wide-ranging exploration of biblical examples of metaphor—some familiar, and some surprising!
Spiritual tools and a practice for using metaphor and writing for reflection and connection.

Our walk of faith is a mysterious thing. We are invited to know the unknowable, to love the indescribable, to fall into the embrace of a paradoxical God who dwells quietly in human hearts and holds the entire universe in the palm of one hand.

Sometimes, connecting with a Creator of such magnitude feels nearly impossible—doesn’t it? Our experience of God starts to feel two-dimensional, and we struggle to guide others who long to strengthen their relationships with God in turn.

But language contains a gift that can help us finite humans think a little bigger, deeper, and wider: metaphor.
Metaphor is a sacred tool for expanding our understanding of God beyond reductive definitions and into something alive, multidimensional, and firmly rooted.

Through guided exercises and playful exploration, you’ll experiment with creating metaphoric parables of your own, developing a fuller imagination about who God is and how God moves in the world. Join us as we learn to connect with God with greater depth, creativity, and curiosity.

Event Details

June 18, 2025
12:00 pm

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1:00 pm CT

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Dr. Susan Brooks
Director of Faith+Lead Academy

Susan Leigh Brooks is a lifelong literacy educator with a passion for learning and teaching. After more than three decades of teaching reading and writing to learners from preschool age to graduate students, she currently serves as the Associate Director of Faith+Lead Academy. She creates online courses to encourage and equip people in their faith.

Along with reading, of course, Dr. Brooks loves to garden and hike. She also loves to travel, having been to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area over 50 times. She and her husband have two adult children, two amazing children-in-law, and a new grandson, all of whom receive books for Christmas.

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