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.
Learn more about this on-demand webinar and other Teaching Tolerance webinars (registration and login required)
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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.
Learn more about this on-demand webinar and other Teaching Tolerance webinars (registration and login required)
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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.
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.
Learn more about the Roll Down Justice Lenten Series from Worship Design Studio
Watch the “Roll Down Justice with Dr. Marcia McFee – Get Ready Webinar”
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ONA and the Bible (United Church of Christ)
“Open and Affirming (ONA) is the United Church of Christ’s (UCC) designation for congregations, campus ministries, and other bodies in the UCC which make a public covenant of welcome into their full life and ministry to persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions.”
Source: United Church of Christ
ONA WEBINAR – ONA AND THE BIBLE
Just seven verses in the Bible are sometimes an obstacle for congregations on their journey towards an Open and Affirming covenant. But there are more than 31,000 verses in the Bible! What does the Bible teach about our relationships with God and each other? And how should you respond when members of your church have questions about the seven verses often used to condemn same-sex relationships?
If more than one participant is sharing one computer (or watching one screen), you can register as a group and save!
1-3 participants: $30
4-6 participants: $60
7+ participants: $90
Learn more – and register for – this online ONA webinar
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Torah Alive: Insiders and Outsiders – Jews and the Civil Rights Movement (Reform Judaism)
In this on-demand webinar Dr. Jonathan Krasner explores the experiences of Jewish activists in the Civil Rights Movement.
Presenters: Dr. Jonathan Krasner and Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber
Watch this FREE on-demand webinar from ReformJudaism.org.
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Jewish Perspectives on Food Justice (Reform Judaism)
This on-demand webinar Commemorates Food Day with a webinar full of special guests. It explores the Jewish values that affirm conscious food choices and discuss practical ways to tackle food justice challenges in local communities.
Presenters: Naomi Abelson, Susan Paykin, Professor Richard Schwartz, Rabbi Kevin Kleinman and Anna Hanau
Watch this FREE on-demand webinar from ReformJudaism.org.
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Torah Alive: Social Justice and the High Holy Days (Reform Judaism)
As we stand into a New Year, let us recognize this commitment to tikkun olam and to take action to repair our world. In this on-demand webinar, Rabbi David Saperstein discussed the connections between Social Justice and the High Holy Days.
Presenters: Rabbi Joan Glazer Farber and Rabbi David Saperstein
Watch this FREE on-demand webinar from ReformJudaism.org.
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God, the Garden, and Gays: Homosexuality in Genesis (Queer Theology)
If we’re going to dive into scripture and try to make sense of what it means for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Genesis is as a good of a place as any to begin!
Watch this free on-demand webinar from Queer Theology.
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.
America Isn’t Itself When It’s Afraid (Amnesty International)
The “America I Believe In” responds to fear, hate, and bigotry by building a visible, active constituency to push back against those who try to convince us that human rights and national security are mutually exclusive. Through statements of solidarity, your local groups, student organizations, and places of worship can demonstrate to your communities and to your elected officials that the America we believe in leads with human rights.
The on-demand webinar offers a skillshare on how to organize these statements of solidarity, and what to do with them once you’ve created them.
Click to view this on-demand webinar from Amnesty International
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