ad radicem

Ad Radicem is a Bible study for people looking for honest and intelligent conversation about a living faith. There is enough room for everyone at this table. Each week’s conversation is centered on a particular topic or passage of Scripture. To start the momentum rolling, the conversation opens with a quote or a poem, and then explores the issues at hand by asking questions about the text and about each other’s experience. This is a space to share your own thoughts and to be encouraged by others joining in the labor of living a faith-filled life.

What does “Ad Radicem” mean? “Radix” is the Latin word for “root,” so Ad Radicem means “to the root.” In the book of Isaiah, Jesus is called a shoot from the “root of Jesse,” and in John’s gospel he speaks of himself as the grape vine upon which all of his disciples are branches. To go “to the root,” then, is to seek to be human in the way that Jesus was fully human, in the midst of a world where people abuse one another in beastly ways. Going to the root means talking together about the best ways to love God with heart, soul, mind and strength while loving all our neighbors as ourselves. These conversations aim to get our hands into the dirt and water, the prayers and practices necessary for genuine growth in the faith—without descending into mud-slinging.

When and where do we meet? (click here) 

First Lutheran Church sponsors Ad Radicem, which is coordinated by Eric Daryl Meyer