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SUMMARY:Love is Louder: Listening Deeply to LGBTQIA+ Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries hosts a month-long webinar series focusing on intentional dialogue with LGBTQIA+ individuals to learn more about the state of this moment and how we can collectively offer care and just action together.\n\n Kicking off our Love is Louder series will be Dr. Katrina Roseboro-Marsh\, who currently serves as the Executive Director for the Open and Affirming Coalition of the United Church of Christ. In this series episode\, we’ll explore together the impact of genuine extravagant welcome and affirmation of LGBTQIA+ siblings. This conversation will help prepare the way for asking ourselves what our internal work is for this moment and how we can act collectively out loud in love!
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/love-is-louder-listening-deeply-to-lgbtqia-experiences/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Climate Hope Cards Prayer Service
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a brief online prayer service as we enter into the final week of collecting Climate Hope Cards to deliver to Washington\, DC in September. Climate Hope Cards is an effort to strengthen EPA protections so that we might save thousands of lives\, address societal inequities\, and put our nation on track to reach its climate goals. UCC churches and camps across the country have been participating in this campaign over the course of the summer. The prayer service will feature interns and fellows who have been devoting time and energy to collecting cards. They will share with us moments in which they have experienced or witnessed hope over the past few months. All are welcome to join us!
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/climate-hope-cards-prayer-service/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Creation Justice
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SUMMARY:Centering Environmental Justice at the EPA
DESCRIPTION:The mission of the Environmental Protection Agency is “to protect human health and the environment.” It’s a mission that relates directly to some of the core values held by people of faith. It’s also a mission that has evolved and developed in important ways. This past year the EPA institutionalized environmental justice and civil rights as top priorities. In this webinar\, we will focus on what people of faith need to know about how the EPA works. We will pay particular attention to environmental justice and new programs\, such as those related to environmental justice grants. Our featured guests will be:\n\n-Charles Lee\, Senior Policy Advisor for Environmental Justice\, EPA\n-Jacob Burney\, Environmental Justice Grants Division Director\, EPA\n\nEven if you cannot make the webinar at its scheduled time\, still sign-up\, and we will send you a link to a recording of it.\n\nThis monthly installment of Creation Justice Webinars is co-hosted by the Rev. Dr. Brooks Berndt who serves as the Minister of Environmental Justice for the United Church of Christ and the Rev. Michael Malcom who serves as the Executive Director for Alabama Interfaith Power & Light and the People’s Justice Council.
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/centering-environmental-justice-at-the-epa/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental Justice
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SUMMARY:Love is Louder: Listening Deeply to LGBTQIA+ Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries hosts a month-long webinar series focusing on intentional dialogue with LGBTQIA+ individuals to learn more about the state of this moment and how we can collectively offer care and just action together.\n\nContinuing our Love is Louder series we’ll spend time with Erin Green who serves as the Campus and Alumni Organizer for REAP (Religious Exemption Accountability Project). In this series episode we’ll explore the intersections of education and LGBTQIA+ experiences. This conversation will help widen our perspectives on the various ways LGBTQIA+ experiences can be oppressed throughout different systems and ways you can engage supportively!\n\nErin Green (She/They) is the Campus and Alumni Organizer for REAP. They are an affirming biblical scholar and LGBTQ+ activist. Erin has a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies from Azusa Pacific University and an M.Div. from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Their specialties are in the entire Christian biblical corpus with an emphasis on the Hebrew Bible\, the ancient Near East\, exegesis\, and how to employ various hermeneutical methods. Erin’s passion is helping those excluded by the church to heal from spiritual abuse and trauma by navigating the biblical text in restorative ways.\n\nErin is best known for their work in supporting LGBTQ+ students on conservative\, Christian university campuses and in religious spaces.
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/love-is-louder-listening-deeply-to-lgbtqia-experiences-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Love is Louder: Listening Deeply to LGBTQIA+ Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries hosts a month-long webinar series focusing on intentional dialogue with LGBTQIA+ individuals to learn more about the state of this moment and how we can collectively offer care and just action together. \nVenturing further into our Love is Louder series\, we welcome Kevin Miguel Garcia\, a spiritual recovery coach\, mystic theologian and author of the upcoming release What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a Practice with Your Divine Self to share with us practices of resilience\, solidarity and self-compassion for the work of loving ourselves and our neighbors out loud. \nKevin Miguel Garcia (they/them) is a digital pastor\, spiritual recovery coach\, mystic theologian\, sought-after speaker\, and host of the podcast A Tiny Revolution. Gracia holds a master of practical theology from Columbia Theological Seminary. They coach clients form around the world through deconstruction\, coming-out processes\, and cultivating spiritual practices to promote resilience\, solidarity\, and self-compassion. Gracia is the author of Bad Theology Kills and upcoming release What Makes You Bloom: Cultivating a Practice with Your Divine Self with Broadleaf Press.
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/love-is-louder-listening-deeply-to-lgbtqia-experiences-3/
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SUMMARY:Narrative Budgets: Telling your Story by the Numbers
DESCRIPTION:A narrative budget translates the line items of a traditional budget into a story of how your congregation makes a difference in the world. It can be a helpful tool for a stewardship campaign or annual meeting. By telling the story of our congregations’ impact\, we can inspire generosity in our donors.
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/narrative-budgets-telling-your-story-by-the-numbers-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Stewardship
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SUMMARY:Love is Louder: Listening Deeply to LGBTQIA+ Experiences
DESCRIPTION:Gender & Sexuality Justice Ministries hosts a month-long webinar series focusing on intentional dialogue with LGBTQIA+ individuals to learn more about the state of this moment and how we can collectively offer care and just action together.\n\nClosing our series with the possibility of our collective becoming is Dr. Roberto Ché Espinoza\, a transgender public scholar & Latinx using story and imaginative narrative with hopes of stewarding ethical future. Together we’ll talk through how we can collectively plant seeds for love to continue to be louder than hate and an active posture of our faith in action.\n\nDr. Roberto Ché Espinoza(he/they) is a Transgender public scholar & Latinx using story and imaginative narrative with hopes of stewarding ethical futures. Using story and imaginative narrative\, Dr. Roberto writes for the academy\, church\, and movements for social change. Dr. Roberto is the author of Activist Theology and Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation. They were named 1 of 10 faith leaders to watch by the Center for American Progress in 2018 and continues to plant seeds for our collective becoming.
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/love-is-louder-listening-deeply-to-lgbtqia-experiences-4/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230831T153000
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SUMMARY:Building A Better World: Faith-based Organizing from A-Z
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation with “Building a Better World” Editor\, Vahisha Hasan. “Some people understand organizing as something that happens outside of the church\, but following the teachings and ministry of Jesus we quickly realize the call to discipleship is a call to organize guided by our Faith. Join us as we discuss “Building A Better World” a new offering of the United Church of Christ that engages organizing principles of our Faith.” – Rev. Traci D. Blackmon
URL:https://www.ucc.org/event/building-a-better-world-faith-based-organizing-from-a-z/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Nurture the Soul
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