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My Load is Easy: An Invitation to Cease Striving, Building, and Bettering

A conversation with Ephraim Radner; Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology

March 10, 2025
7:30 pm EST in person at 111 The Knoll Rd
7:45 pm EST via Zoom

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Our generation pressures itself to meet abstract and unattainable standards of equality, self-actualization, and social improvement. We feel pulled toward one of two extremes: striving endlessly to create a perfect world and a perfect life, or retreating into distraction or numbness when our efforts fail. We long for all things to be made new, yet we struggle to tolerate ambiguity and wait patiently for God’s return. Instead of living with hope and eager expectation, we carry a self-imposed and ever-increasing weight of anxiety and despair.

Ephraim Radner, Emeritus Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, offers a different way. Through the gifting of his Spirit, God invites us to fully engage this present life—embracing both its moments of glorious astonishment and its seasons of suffering—while learning to rest in Christ’s easy yoke until His return.

What if Jesus truly meant it when He said, My load is easy? And what if it’s still true for us today? Join us for this powerful conversation about living lightly in a heavy world.

Ephraim Radner; Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto; PhD in Theology (Yale University)BA (Dartmouth College), MDiv (Yale Divinity School)

Prior to his appointment as Professor of Historical Theology, the Rev. Dr. Radner was rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Pueblo, Colorado. His range of ministerial experience includes Burundi, where he worked as a missionary, Haiti, inner-city Cleveland, and Connecticut. He has taught at seminaries in Connecticut and Colorado. In the Anglican Communion context he is a member of the Covenant Design Group. He is a violinist, hiker, and traveler. He is married to the Rev. Annette Brownlee and they are the parents of Hannah and Isaac. Radner’s research and teaching interests include pneumatology, ecclesiology and ecumenism, and biblical hermeneutics. Radner is currently co-editing a volume on Anglican figural reading of the Scriptures, and working on a larger project involving Christian politics.

Ecclesiology: Ecclesial decision-making, politics and ecumenism, Scriptural hermeneutics and the theological categories of “time” and “history”, The character of early modern Christian self-identity, Pneumatology, Contemporary Christian social experience, Theological Interpretation of Scripture.