How to Start a Church with Three Showers and a Trailer
"How to Start a Church with Three Showers and a Trailer" - An article you should read if you're interested in innovative approaches to God's mission.
Find it at: https://connectjournalorg.wordpress.com/2021/09/20/how-to-start-a-church-with-three-showers-and-a-trailer/
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"First, Stop Playing God"
-a talk by Rabbi Rami Shipiro
Saturday, October 9, 9:00am-noon MDT via zoom
Twelve-Step Spirituality is for everyone because everyone suffers from the foundational addiction of humankind: playing God.
In this talk Rabbi Rami will use elements of the Twelve Steps as well as insights common to all mystical traditions to explore the notion of playing God and the liberating realization that God is playing us.
Please go to https://www.centeringprayer.net/RamiShapiro to register or call 303-698-7729
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The Gospel of Luke: "We had hoped..."
Tuesdays, October 19 - November 9, 4:00-5:45 p.m.
In this 4-session online workshop, we will explore the Gospel of Luke, a story that remembers what “we had hoped” (Lk 24:21) would finally happen.
As they did last year with the Gospel of Mark, Pam Faro (Broomfield, CO), a professional biblical storyteller who has performed and taught around the globe, will tell key parts of Luke’s story; and Richard Swanson (Sioux Falls, SD), professor at Augustana University and the director of the Provoking the Gospel Storytelling Project, will guide our exploration of Pam’s performances. We will experience the story together, and we will think together about how hope is possible in a brutal and disappointing world.
Cost is $180(USD) per person (special rates available for students, retired clergy, and a church staff group rate).
"(Their) course has transformed the way I read and present scripture"
(Nancy Eckles, Interim Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church, Miller, SD)
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Introducing two important web conferences
brought to you by the Iliff School of Theology -
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kwok Pui Lan is the 2021 Everding Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Kwok is Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA, and a past president of the American Academy of Religion. She has authored and edited numerous books on Asian and Asian American feminist theology, biblical interpretation, and postcolonial criticism. Her publications include Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology; Globalization, Gender, and Peacebuilding; and Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World. She is also the editor of Women and Christianity in 4 volumes. This year, she received the Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Her forthcoming book Postcolonial Politics and Theology will be published in December 2021.
As an Everding Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Kwok will give a public lecture on Tuesday, October 12, at 7 p.m. (MDT). The title her lecture is Women’s Protests and Religion. Please RSVP for the webinar here.
Due to the pandemic, her lecture will be in a webinar format. Click this Zoom link to join the webinar on Tuesday, October 12, at 7 p.m. (MST).
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Shifting Climates, Shifting People
The Center for EcoJustice at the Iliff School of Theology is pleased to announce its next conference – to be held virtually on October 21 and 22, 2021. The conference will focus on the intersection of environmental racism and immigration. What impact does shifting climate have on populations whose lands are being devastated? Forced to leave, what impact does shifting people have upon overstrained world resources?
For the tentative schedule, and presenters, visit the conference webpage.
For more information about the conference, please contact: ecojustice@iliff.edu.
To register for this conference, go HERE.
“Missing from most conversations concerning the current environmental crises is the role racism plays on those most affected by the degradation of the land. Also, missing from most discussions on our current immigration crisis is the role failed crops and droughts are having in the global south due to changing climate. This year we are focused on the intersection of climate change and immigration.”
Professor Miguel De La Torre