July – August 2024 Sessions

Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m.
BuxMont UU Fellowship in the Social Hall
Dates: July 31 & August 28

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
– Philip Pullman

From July – August 2024, we explored the world of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time as sacred story. We held two sessions, the last Wednesdays of July and August, from 7-8:30 p.m. If you were not part of our first set of gatherings, you can see how we tackled the first book in the main series The Eye of the World and paired it with season one of the Amazon series, click here to see that information.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it brith comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in Warrington. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning.

Religious stories are human stories, and human stories are religious stories. Stories make us who we are and change us. This is the power of stories, they connect people, they change people from individuals into a community. Stories create connections not only among people together in the present but across generations, across cultural boundaries, and across imagination. We are invited to think differently and to think through the words of another what it might be like to live in their world for a moment.

Join us as we explore the world of Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time as sacred story. What does it mean to approach fiction, in the form of the written word and on the screen, as lessons that help us become more fully human?

Whether you have read the series multiple times or are just beginning your first read, or whether the television show was your first taste of Jordan’s world, you are welcome in this Circle.

The may be spoilers.

We will try to keep the spoilers light but as we discuss larger themes or the myths of the Westlands and beyond, things may come up from beyond our reading.

A bit about your guide: I am Rev. Kevin W. Jagoe, a Unitarian Universalist Minister and Humanist Celebrant. I have been reading The Wheel of Time since high school and I’ve read the entire series many many times (honestly I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read the early books but more than ten feels like a conservative estimate). As a minister, I am a professional storyteller and meaning-maker. I know that stories have power, and that they can be true whether they reflect facts or not. This series is my primary fandom so bringing it together with how we make meaning in community feels like a natural bridge to me.

Sessions are 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday, July 31

Theme of the Night: Entering Home.

New Spring: Chapters One through Twelve

Wednesday, August 28

Theme of the Night: When to Surrender.

New Spring: Chapters Thirteen through the Epilogue