Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar demonstrated classroom activities that can engage students in understanding primary sources, recognizing patterns and trends across time, and evaluating how some religious freedom claims contribute to the backlash against the advancement of LGBT rights. Special guest speaker was David Dinielli, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s LGBT Rights Project.
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Let’s Talk! Discussing Black Lives Matter With Students (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar explored Black Lives Matter, an activist group that media, schools and communities often struggle to understand. In this webinar you’ll learn about the roots of Black Lives Matter, its platform and its connections to past social justice movements. You’ll also gain tools for engaging students about the Black Lives Matter movement in the classroom.
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Let’s Talk! Discussing Whiteness (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar will guide you in reflecting on and defining white privilege through multimedia and group chats. It discusses whiteness as a racial identity with the understanding that acknowledging whiteness—and the privilege and power attached to it—is a necessary step in working toward racial justice.
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Equity Matters: Developing Empathy (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
Educators will learn about the impact of teaching and modeling empathy in their classrooms in this on-demand webinar. Participants responded to real-life scenarios and gained strategies for building empathy into their own classroom practices—and for teaching students to empathize with others. Guest speaker was Ronald Smith, director of New Way.
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Disclaimer: Sacred Space Online Learning (SSOL) seeks to provide individuals with information about religious, spiritual, or faith-based online resources from a variety of sources. Sacred Space Online Learning does NOT claim ownership over this online course or online offering. Sacred Space Online Learning is also NOT responsible for the accuracy of the materials, the content, the way they are advertised or taught, or the costs associated with this online course or offering. The views and opinions expressed in this online course or offering are those of the creators and/or the persons appearing in the online class or offering. They do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of SSOL, the OFLD, or MCC. If you have any questions or concerns please contact the creator(s) of the given online course or online offering.
MCC Refugees and Immigration (Metropolitian Community Churches)
This on-demand webinar explores questions about how the closing of the US border might affect those in MCC communities. Special guests discussed concerns regarding refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants in the U.S.
Re-imagine Lent: Preach to Ignite Your Soul & Your People (Center for Progressive Renewal)
Employing the hermeneutic of imagination is most difficult for seminary trained preachers exposed to exegetical principles, introduction to preaching processes, and those dreaded colleague critiques. This webinar with Womanist and Rhetorical Ethics specialist Rev. Kanisha Billingsley encourages you to dust off your creativity as you ignite your soul and your people.
Note: This webinar is “on demand,” and you will be able to view it immediately once your purchase is complete.
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Roll Down Justice! Lent Series (Worship Design Studio)
This “Roll Down Justice” series contains fully-developed liturgies complete with prayers, litanies, communion liturgy, familiar hymns and song suggestions (with alternatives for various styles of worship), original music, leader transitions completely written out, and ideas for visual and media elements. All you do is adapt for your context!
If you are not already a fan of Mark A. Miller’s powerful music, you will be after this series!
A long-time Worship Design Studio Guest Expert and well-known-and-loved composer, Miller’s extraordinary new resource, “Roll Down Justice: Sacred Songs and Social Justice” is featured in this series. Each Sunday has a feature song that illuminates the scripture and theme and can be done as a congregational song or choral anthem.
Your access to these materials means that with the click of a button, you will have: Ash Wednesday, 6 Sundays of Lent, a special Holy Week pilgrimage experience, and Easter COMPLETELY scripted!
Source: Worship Design Studio
Lent was originally a time of preparation for baptism. We reclaim the waters of baptism as our call to love ourselves as children of God, understand God’s love for all people and then “go and do likewise” as we love the world and its peoples–resisting evil and alleviating suffering in all its forms. To connect Lent with our call as disciples to acts of justice–making a better world–we see the development of our inner spiritual journeys as essential to our work. And there is no more important time than now for offering more love in this divided world.
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Watch the “Roll Down Justice with Dr. Marcia McFee – Get Ready Webinar”
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Children’s Ministry – Planning for Lent (United Methodist Church)
This on-demand webinar discusses ways to help children and families use the season of Lent to get their hearts and homes ready for the Mystery of Easter. Presenters are Tanya Eustace and Melanie C. Gordon.
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Preparing for Lent with Children (Practical Resources for Churches)
This on-demand webinar discusses projects, books, and activities to help children and their families spend the 40 days leading to Easter in meaningful, Spirit-led ways. It was led by Elizabeth Christie – a Christian Educator with the United Methodist Church. Additionally, she is a certified special education teacher and has worked extensively with children and adults with various needs. Elizabeth loves finding ways to make activities work for all ages and abilities, and is usually covered in markers, paint, and glitter.
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Sex, Bodies, Spirit – The Roots of Sex Negativity in Western Christianity (part 1)
This is part of an ongoing informational and discussion series by Metropolitan Community Churches that advance this topic among clergy and churches from any denomination. All are invited to attend!
Rev. Dr. Robin Gorsline and Malachi Grennell are the authors of an exciting blog about sex, bodies, and spirit (sexbodiessspirit.net), and they are bringing their passion and expertise to a monthly gathering on Adobe Connect that will address issues of sex and spirit, in order to further advance this concern and educate all of us around the ongoing need for our churches.
Watch the Roots of Sex Negativity in Western Christianity (part 1)
