Date: Friday, January 31, 1:00 – 6:00 pm; Saturday, February 1, 9:00
am – 5:00 pm Instructor: Donna Schaper RSVP:
https://myunion.utsnyc.edu/bricks-and-mortals-removethepews
[https://myunion.utsnyc.edu/bricks-and-mortals-removethepews] This
course teaches queer and non-binary theology of sacred sites. It
will show what we need the sacred sites for, how endangered they are
and how to save them. Establishing an incarnational approach to
buildings that neither elevates nor demeans them, it will offer ways
to steward them. The course highlight multi-use of sacred spaces as
a way to be green, to be neighborly and to establish less distinction
between sacralized and desacralized spaces. It argues for hyper-use
of open, public spaces in worlds where the privatization of space is
rapidly increasing. Students learn how self-governing small
institutions are foundational to larger democratic institutions. Donna
Schaper is Senior Minister at Judson Memorial Church since 2006. She
is active in th NEW YORK City Sanctuary Movement, BRICKS AND MORTALS
(sacred sites and real estate) and with a community ministry program
at Judson which trains seminarians in how to do public ministry from a
parish base. Deeply involved in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War
movements, she entered the University of Chicago Divinity School in
1969, earning a Master’s Degree in 1971. She was one of the first
women ministers in the United Church of Christ in the early 1970s, and
was a key figure in the feminist movement within the Church and within
campus ministry during the 1970s, when she was first Assistant Pastor
of the First Congregational Church of Tucson, AZ, and then Associate
Pastor of Tabernacle Church in Philadelphia (also a chaplain at the
University of Pennsylvania). She was a key player in Campus Ministry
Women, as well as women’s groups within the United Church of
Christ. She helped bring the Open and Affirming Movement to the
United Church of Christ and the “God is Still Speaking” Movement
as well. For 25 years in ministry she has been one of the best known
feminist civil rights and peace advocates in the church. She is one of
the most sought-after preachers and speakers in the United Church of
Christ. Donna is also one of the most widely published women ministers
in the country, especially within the mainline church. Since the late
1980s, she has had 35 books published on everything from becoming 40,
to understanding Sabbath, to spiritual rock gardening, to the
differences between male and female ministerial styles, to devotional
guides to different Christian seasons (Advent, Lenten, and the like),
and most recently, from Nation Books, GRASSROOTS GARDENING: RITUALS TO
SUSTAIN ACTIVISTS. She writes weekly for the Poughkeepsie Journal
(City Mouse, Country Mouse) and for the National Catholic Reporter.
Tickets: https://myunion.utsnyc.edu/bricks-and-mortals-removethepews
[https://myunion.utsnyc.edu/bricks-and-mortals-removethepews].
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