10/16/22 - Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know about Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity

Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Location: Spellman Jr & Zoom

Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know about Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity 

Final Session October 16 • Hybrid (Spellman Jr & Zoom)

  • Session 5: Scandal/Hospitality: Like Jesus, queer people know embracing scandal creates an ethical vision that frees us from shame and affirms the dignity of every human being.  Led by Chris Clark.

October 23, New Journey Class:  Exploring Our Christian DNA - What History Tells Us About the Way We Worship - October 23-November 20 - Rev. Dr. Sally A. Brown

October 23-November 20 • Hybrid (Spellman Jr & Zoom)

Rev. Dr. Brown, recently retired Professor Emerita of Worship and Preaching at Princeton Seminary will lead us in exploring why we do things the way we do in our worship services.  Exploring our liturgical DNA is fun; it can make us more mindful as worshipers; and it can deepen our appreciation of the history of churches that worship differently than we do.  This journey will reveal not only what makes our ways of worshiping distinctive, but will shed light on what we have in common with Christians across the world.

  • Session 1 - October 23:  The Ancient Four-Fold Journey of Worship: Why Do We Do This and Where Did It Come From?  This session will provide an overview of our journey into the Christian past.
  • Session 2 - October 30:  Marking Time:  The Journey of Christian Worship through the Year.  In this session we'll discover how the annual Christian calendar of seasons and feasts came into being.
  • Session 3 - November 6:  Worship as Dialogue: Proclamation, Prayer, Song and Creed.  This session will focus on the dialogical nature of Christian worship.
  • Session 4 - November 13:  The Sacraments: Baptism and the Lord's Supper.  History reveals these sacraments form a deep, common ground for Christians across differing communions today; but have also been a battleground among Christians.  How do they form our Christian Lives?  What are key differences in how these are understood and practiced today?
  • Session 5 - November 20:  Worship as Formation: from Sanctuary to Street.  Worship is more than Sunday worship.  It is meant to lend coherence and momentum to our daily lives.  This session will explore this connection.