The Journey Sunday School Class welcomes everyone to its new 11-week series, “The Porch Sessions: Films of Subversive Laughter, Conversations of Faith, and Community,” which begins this Sunday, August 31. The class meets during the Sunday School hour (9:45-10:45 a.m.) in Room 260.
In this series, Biblical Theologian and Old Testament professor, Walter Brueggemann and community developer and author, Peter Block engage in conversation about the broad narrative of faith and community that has immediate implications in our particular neighborhoods and churches. Besides the interviewers, the prophet Elisha is the other conversation partner who seeks to show us how empire is to be subverted. This video series demonstrates that the ideas of Brueggemann and Block do not come from untested ideology but the richness of the relationship that they share, as lives lived in community.
Session 1 (August 31) is “Restorative Community”: In America, our collective memory of public life and economics needs to be awakened. If not, then the trend will be continued privatization of common resources in a way that will choke what it means to both have values and to be free.
Brueggemann is professor emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary and is an ordained minister of the United Church of Christ (UCC). He received this Ph.D. from St. Louis University and Th.D. from Union Theological Seminary, New York. Block is the founder of The School for Managing of the Association for Quality and Participation, Deigned Learning, a company that teaches consulting skills, and the consulting firm, Block Petrella Weisbord. He received a master’s degree in industrial administration from Yale University.
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