Wonder of Worship: Listening to a Diversity of Voices about Intergenerational Worship Wonder of Worship has completed its first year of the five year, Lilly Endowment funded grant regarding nurturing children through worship and prayer. We’ve done a lot of listening...
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 […]
The Sunday School Struggle
The Sunday School Struggle: What’s Flourishing, What’s Fading, and What’s in the Future? For many congregations, the “traditional” Sunday school of our childhoods is a thing of the past. Today, churches are doing Sunday School in a myriad of different ways and the choices can be overwhelming! In this workshop, we’ll look at current Sunday […]
Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning
Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning Is your Sunday School hour for children and families thriving or dying? How involved and enthusiastic are your children and families about your regular worship services? During COVID, we took the opportunity for change to begin a new program that would reach more children and families who wanted […]