The Essential Ernest Holmes
Mondays
April 29 – July 8
(no class May 27 – U.S. Memorial Day)
5:30 to 8:00 p.m. MT
$295
(payment plan available-email SpiritualDevelopment@csl.org for more information)
Taught by Rev. Jesse Jennings
The Essential Ernest Holmes is the first CSL course to delve into all of Ernest’s writings, feasting on his quiet, devotional writings as well as his impassioned, chalk-in-hand teachings to future leaders.
His love of people and facility for seeing past their problems into the heart of their eternal being anticipates modern psychology, while relating the human condition to a limitless ability to choose what to think and how to feel. His ear for poetry and his profound mystical vision merge in the Farers quest toward The Voice Celestial.
In the collection called The Holmes Papers, he clarifies fine points of Religious Science teaching, relates its (and his own) fascinating history, and traces New Thought ideals back through the centuries to humankinds earliest religious sentiments.
Ideal for everyone, from the future practitioner to the inquisitive newcomer, The Essential Ernest Holmes is a joyous experience in personal unfoldment.
About Rev. Jesse Jennings, D.D. (hon)
Rev. Dr. Jesse is now in his 39th year of ministry leading Creative Life Spiritual Center, serving greater Houston. He created the book, The Essential Ernest Holmes (published 2002) and then the CSL course that’s drawn from it. He began writing for Science of Mind magazine in 1989 and two years later launched a monthly column that has run since. Now Contributing Editor, he curates the October “Daily Guides” by Ernest Holmes, and authors frequent feature articles. He wrote the foreword to the Complete Edition of The Science of Mind textbook, and in 2021 his book More Than We Seem was published by Spiritual Living Press. For two terms in the early 1990s, he chaired the International Board of Trustees of the United Church of Religious Science. From UCRS, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1997, and in 2019 was presented with the Ernest Holmes Award. In addition to his local ministry and writing, he teaches at four regional campuses of the Holmes Institute and leads classes, book studies, and other events for the CSL global online community.
