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SUMMARY:Bless Your Soul: A Music and Faith Series
DESCRIPTION:Dates: February 18\, 25th\, March 4th\, 11th\, 18th\, 25th\, 2025 from 6-8pm via Zoom \nInstructor: Bill Buchanan \n \nJoin Rev. Bill Buchanan (aka DJ5) on a faith-filled journey through American music.  We will look at the history\, musicality\, and theology of blues\, jazz\, soul\, funk\, and rap to glean the lessons they have for us in our current congregational ministries. \nSession 1 – Blues: Prophets of resilience \nSession 2 – Jazz: A model for post-empire church \nSession 3 – Soul: Between the blues moan and the gospel shout \nSession 4 – Funk: The music of the kingdom of God \nSession 5 – Hip Hop: The Music of Reformation \nSession 6 – Sharing our theological playlists
URL:https://www.upsem.edu/event/bless-your-soul-a-music-and-faith-series/2025-03-18/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Leadership Institute
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SUMMARY:Book Club: How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
DESCRIPTION:How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair\n \nOnline meetings 6-8pm EST; March 18\, March 25\, April 1\, and April 8\nWith echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle\, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post)\, brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms. \nThroughout her childhood\, Safiya Sinclair’s father\, a volatile reggae musician and a militant adherent to a strict sect of Rastafari\, was obsessed with the ever-present threat of the corrupting evils of the Western world outside their home\, and worried that womanhood would make Safiya and her sisters morally weak and impure. For him\, a woman’s highest virtue was her obedience. \nSafiya’s extraordinary mother\, though loyal to her father\, gave her the one gift she knew would take Safiya beyond the stretch of beach and mountains in Jamaica their family called home: a world of books\, knowledge\, and education she conjured almost out of thin air. When she introduced Safiya to poetry\, Safiya’s voice awakened. As she watched her mother struggle voicelessly for years under relentless domesticity\, Safiya’s rebellion against her father’s rules set her on an inevitable collision course with him. Her education became the sharp tool to hone her own poetic voice and carve her path to liberation. Rich in emotion and page-turning drama\, How to Say Babylon is “a melodious wave of memories” of a woman finding her own power (NPR).\n \nLed by Rev. Dr. Chris Burton \n \nRegister below. Registration closes on March 15\, 2025. You can register late until March 21 by emailing Deborah Keyes  \n\n \n\nUPSem Students and Faculty can register for free. Contact Deborah to register if you are a UPSem student or faculty.
URL:https://www.upsem.edu/event/book-club-how-to-say-babylon-by-safiya-sinclair/2025-03-18/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Leadership Institute
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SUMMARY:Pathways Online Course: Biblical Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:A Pathways Online course instructed by Rev. Dr. Megan Fullerton Strollo\n \nRev. Dr. Megan Fullerton Strollo is Assistant Professor of Biblical Languages\, beginning in July 2020. She received both her Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy in biblical studies degrees from Union Presbyterian Seminary in 2012 and 2020\, respectively. Her primary research interests include the Megilloth\, post-exilic literature\, Wisdom literature\, biblical languages\, biblical theology\, women in the Bible\, intertextuality in the Bible\, and feminist biblical interpretation. She has published articles and reviews in peer-reviewed journals and is a contributor in Megilloth Studies: The Shape of Contemporary Scholarship (Sheffield Phoenix Press\, 2016). \nCourse Description: \nThis course has as its primary goal the equipping of Christian leaders to interpret biblical texts faithfully. The course provides an overview of the ways in which the church has approached the work of biblical interpretation and then offers a practical guide for close reading of passages. \nDates: Tuesdays\, February 18-March 25\, 2025\, from 7-9pm via zoom. \nOffered by the Leadership Institute at Union Presbyterian Seminary \nRegistration closes on February 13\, 2025.\n \n\nIf you are UPSem faculty or staff or are in financial need of a discounted registration fee\, please contact Deborah Keyes.
URL:https://www.upsem.edu/event/biblical-interpretation-pathways-online-course-2/2025-03-18/
LOCATION:NC
CATEGORIES:Leadership Institute
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SUMMARY:WLI Online Course: Womanist Biblical Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Womanist Leadership Institute Online Course instructed by Rev. Dr. Angela Parker: Womanist Biblical Interpretation\nCourse Description: This semi-seminar course studies womanist biblical interpretation and its application to preaching. It examines womanist theoretical frameworks with special attention to the lived experiences of Black women in the United States of America and womanist thought and Black women’s experiences have conversations with various “isms” (racism\, heterosexism\, ableism\, ageism\, and anti-Semitism) as we read the biblical text. These conversations will explore strategies towards ethical biblical interpretation and preaching in order to engage community and society (i.e. such as politics). \n \nMeet the instructor \nRev. Dr. Angela N. Parker is an Associate Professor at McAfee School of Theology\, specializing in New Testament and Greek. She holds degrees from Shaw University\, Duke Divinity School\, and Chicago Theological Seminary. Previously an Assistant Professor at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology\, she won the ESF New Scholar Award for her article “One Womanist’s View of Reconciliation in Galatians.” She teaches courses in New Testament\, Greek Exegesis\, the Gospel of Mark\, the Corinthians Correspondence\, the Gospel of John\, and Womanist and Feminist Hermeneutics unto preaching. \nDates: March 4 – April 8\, 2025 | Tuesdays\, 7-9pm EST via Zoom \nOffered by the Leadership Institute at Union Presbyterian Seminary \n \n\nRegistration closes on February 26\, 2025. Late registration ends on March 8\, 2025. \nIf you are UPSem faculty or staff or are in financial need of a discounted registration fee\, please contact Deborah Keyes.
URL:https://www.upsem.edu/event/wli-online-course-womanist-biblical-interpretation/2025-03-18/
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