All Are Beloved, All Belong: Creating LGBTQIA+ Affirming Ministries Working and living in Beloved community requires engaging theological discussion, creativity, collaboration, and vulnerability. Church workers are often asked to lead ministries which deftly navigate...
Reading the Bible Queerly: Beyond the Basics!
Reading the Bible Queerly: Beyond the Basics! This workshop will help participants dig deeper into trans and queer approaches to the Bible in ways that can help them transform their teaching, preaching, and personal interpretation/devotional practices. The workshop goes “beyond the basics” by skipping over the traditional “clobber passages” and questions of “what the Bible […]
Unboxing the Church: Becoming Courageous Congregations
Unboxing the Church: Becoming Courageous Congregations 1 John 3:18. Let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. We’re interested in co-creating a more peaceful world, but how do we do that with only an hour together on Sundays? The Presbyterian Peace Fellowship can help! This workshop engages congregations of the peace-curious, […]
Advocate Issue July 2024
The Advocate Jan. 2024 Volume 1
The Advocate Jan. 2024 Volume 1
Highlighting AE Workshops: From Being an Ally to a Co-Conspirator
To share ideas with others who desire to live in a more just and equitable world and explore how the principles of community organizing–listening and building relationships–can give us tools for speaking and acting and risk, in the words of John Lewis “getting into good trouble.”