We are launching a new Circle of Practice on Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm beginning this week, Feb. 23!
These circles offer a place for us to grow together as people who love God and love the image of God that we find in our neighbors, in ourselves, and in creation.
We will begin by rooting ourselves in the vision and practices of Becoming Beloved Community. All are welcome.
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You are invited to join in a Lenten StorySharing Series each Thursday throughout Lent, from 7-8:30.
StorySharing--not storytelling--because relationship matters, story matters. We will deeply listen to one another’s unique stories without fixing or solving...we will practice witnessing each other, just as we are.
Each week explores a theme:
Loss
Zeal
Uncovering
Trouble
Bless
Doubt
And together, we will practice Becoming Beloved Community.
Practice becoming…
In other words, this is not about telling the perfect story. Or presenting our best self. Or proving anything to anybody. It’s about remembering our belovedness, in all our human messiness.
Practicing through vulnerability and honesty, we will grow our capacity to be in relationship--with God, with ourselves, and with one another.
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The themes and questions from our StorySharing Circles were created alongside our Diocese's Lenten Zine. Download the zine here.
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Both groups will be reading Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman, starting Tuesday, February 23.
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Early Bird Book Club:
Tuesdays, 6am
Meeting ID: 863 9387 8810
Passcode: 850696
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Night Owl Book Club:
Tuesdays, 10pm
Join Zoom Meeting:
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Amos Project Training: Building Strong Justice Teams
Tuesday, February 23, 12-2pm OR 6:30-8:30pm
Meeting ID 964 2672 4651
Join with people of faith from around Ohio for a training session of building strong justice teams in your congregation. Justice teams are key to building the power we need to create the changes we want to see in our communities. This training will outline what makes a justice team strong and invite participants to develop leadership in their congregations so that we can work together to win on issues of racial and economic justice.
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The challenge is designed to create dedicated time and space to build more effective social justice habits, particularly those dealing with issues of race, power, privilege, and leadership.
You will be presented with challenges such as reading an article, listening to a podcast, reflecting on personal experience and more.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.”
In conjunction with the BE LOVE campaign, The King Center presents a 3-part training series that will feature a study of this quote and other Kingian teachings that can help us ‘Be Love’ to create the Beloved Community. Dates are posted through July. |
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The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song is a series from executive producer, host, and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. It traces the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America, from its bedrock role as the site of African American survival and grace, organizing and resilience, thriving and testifying, autonomy and freedom, solidarity and speaking truth to power. Watch Episode 1 and Episode 2.
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Diocese of Southern Ohio
800.582.1712
#DSOBeloved
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