Street Psalms

3rd Sunday after Epiphany (Year C)
2025-01-26

The Commons
2025-01-22 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-11-27 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-09-25 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
A monthly service hosted by and for the ordained community, dedicated to remembering our common call to develop incarnational leaders for the sake of the city and the most vulnerable. This service seeks to cultivate community and pathways to formational opportunities, and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The Commons is on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
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2nd Sunday after Epiphany (Year C)
2025-01-19

Forgiving Victim Series, Part 1
2025-01-16 08:00 - 09:30 | https://streetpsalms.org/event/forgiving-victim-series-part-1/
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This is the first workshop in a two-workshop series. Part 2 will happen on April 3, 2025.
Join us to dive more deeply into the hermeneutic of a God in whom there is no violence and who is in rivalry with no one, not even death. This workshop, led by James Alison, is based on James’ essay series, “Jesus the Forgiving Victim”.
Who should attend: This event is open to everyone. This workshop will be especially useful to Preaching Peace Facilitator Table participants.
Resources:
–Audio intro to workshop series: Listen here
–Jesus, The Forgiving Victim by James Alison (in particular, the first book of the series: Starting Human, Staying Human)
Watch the recording of the workshop:

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Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
2025-01-15 08:00 - 09:00, 2025-01-08 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-12-18 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-12-11 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-12-04 08:00 - 09:00
The Preaching Peace Initiative is designed for leaders who are exploring together what it means to teach and preach a liberating Gospel of peace in their city. We currently have two models of Preaching Peace Tables that are open source and available to anyone who wants to develop their own expression: Citywide Table and Church/Ministry Table. Learn more about hosting your own table here.
Street Psalms hosts a weekly table for leaders who facilitate Preaching Peace Tables (or are interested in starting a Table). We gather around the gospel lectionary text to practice doing theology from below. All are welcome to join.
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1st Sunday after Epiphany (Year C)
2025-01-12

2nd Sunday After Christmas (Year C)
2025-01-05

cancelled: Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table
2025-01-01 08:00 - 09:00
The Street Psalms Preaching Peace Table will not be meeting on January 1, 2025. We look forward to seeing you on January 8!
The Preaching Peace Initiative is designed for leaders who are exploring together what it means to teach and preach a liberating Gospel of peace in their city. We currently have two models of Preaching Peace Tables that are open source and available to anyone who wants to develop their own expression: Citywide Table and Church/Ministry Table. Learn more about hosting your own table here.
Street Psalms hosts a weekly table of pastors and leaders from a diversity of traditions who gather around the gospel lectionary text to ask a simple question: “How do we teach and preach this text for peace from our tradition for the sake of the city?” All are welcome to join

1st Sunday After Christmas (Year C)
2024-12-29

cancelled: The Commons
2024-12-25 08:00 - 09:00
The Commons will not be meeting on December 25, 2024. We look forward to seeing you in January!
A monthly service hosted by and for the ordained community dedicated to remembering our shared vocation as formationists. This service seeks to cultivate community and pathways to formational opportunities and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The Commons is on the 4th Wednesday of each month.

4th Sunday of Advent (Year C)
2024-12-22

3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C)
2024-12-15

2nd Sunday of Advent (Year C)
2024-12-08

1st Sunday of Advent (Year C)
2024-12-01

Introduction to Becoming a Community in Mission
2024-11-07 08:00 - 09:30 | https://streetpsalms.org/event/intro-to-cim/
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The Becoming a Community in Mission resource is designed for the leadership of faith communities who want to create the conditions for human flourishing, embodying the very thing they desire to see in the world, and explore questions like, “What are the emerging social structures that will help form, shape and model the kind of humanity that leads to human flourishing? What kinds of communities can hold difference and create the conditions for everyone to belong, especially the most vulnerable?”
We refer to this type of organization as a Community in Mission (CiM). Such a community can take many forms, such as a local congregation, non-profit or any organization who is committed to the common good as modeled by Jesus.
In this workshop, we will explore the essential elements of a Community in Mission, spend time reflecting and discussing together, and the Street Psalms team will share additional resources.
Who should attend: This event is open to everyone. This workshop will be especially useful to Preaching Peace Table hosts, those Ordained with SP, Hub Directors, and those participating in the Practicing Peace Initiative.
Resources:
–Read Becoming a Community in Mission >
Watch the recording of the workshop:

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The Commons: Ordination Ceremony
2024-10-23 08:00 - 09:00
Join us as we welcome a new cohort of ordained leaders! All are welcome to attend.
A monthly service hosted by and for the ordained community, dedicated to remembering our common call to develop incarnational leaders for the sake of the city and the most vulnerable. This service seeks to cultivate community and pathways to formational opportunities, and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The Commons is on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
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Introduction to the Incarnational Framework
2024-10-17 08:00 - 09:30 | https://streetpsalms.org/event/intro-to-if/
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The Incarnational Framework is a diagnostic tool designed for those who are called to free leaders from all walks of life to create cities of peace for all people. It is a framework that asks questions, not a curriculum that gives answers. Street Psalms uses it to hold itself accountable to its mission. It’s how we measure our impact. It’s shared by hub directors in our network to help them examine their own approach to freeing leaders. It functions as a rule of life for those who are ordained with Street Psalms, and informs all of our initiatives and programs.
In this workshop we will talk about the components of the Incarnational Framework (SEE, DO, BE, FREE), spend time discussing application questions together, and the Street Psalms team will share additional resources.
Who should attend: This event is open to everyone. This workshop will be especially useful to those Ordained with SP, Hub Directors, and those participating in the Practicing Peace Initiative.
Resources:
–Read the Incarnational Framework > (available in English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Taglish)
–Take the Incarnational Framework Self-Assessment >
Watch the recording of the workshop:

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Incarnational Hermeneutic: Reading the Text Through the Eyes of Jesus
2024-09-24 08:00 - 09:30
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Hermeneutics is the art of interpretation. Traditional fields such as law and social sciences, along with theology, rely on hermeneutics to make sense of, or interpret the meaning of source material. Biblical hermeneutics, likewise, focus on principles for interpreting Scripture.
When it comes to Biblical interpretation, we believe the question isn’t, “What does the text say?” The question is, “Through whose eyes do we read the text?”
Jesus’ response to the many questions he is asked throughout Scripture is a daring act of interpretation. In fact, Jesus is revealed throughout the Gospels not as just another interpreter of sacred texts, but as the very Presence of God who is, for us, a living hermeneutic.
This workshop based on the resource Incarnational Hermeneutic: Reading the Text Through the Eyes of Jesus and is part of a suite of resources dedicated to operationalizing a vision of what we call a “Community in Mission” (CiM) that is modeled after the life of Jesus. Together we will explore the living hermeneutical presence of Jesus that helps leaders of a CiM teach and preach Good News based on a God in whom there is no violence and who is in rivalry with no one, not even death.
Who should attend: This event is open to everyone. For those who applied to be part of the Preaching Peace Facilitators Table, this a helpful onramp to the hermeneutic that will be used for the Preaching Peace Initiative. This workshop will also be especially useful to those who are Ordained with SP.
Resource: Incarnational Hermeneutic: Reading the Text Through the Eyes of Jesus >
Listen to three talks by James Alison:

Practicing a Living Hermeneutic with James Alison (on Acts 1:6-11; Acts 2:1-8; see referenced text here)

Listen here

Practicing a Living Hermeneutic with James Alison (on John 15:26 -16:15; see referenced text here)

Listen here

Practicing a Living Hermeneutic with James Alison (on Acts 10:1-48; see referenced text here)

Listen here

Watch the recording of the workshop:

View the slides (PDF) >
Resources mentioned in the chat:
–Reading the Bible with the Damned by Bob Ekblad
–Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope by Esau McCauley
–God of the Oppressed by James Cone
–First Nations Version: An Indigenous Bible Translation of the New Testament by Terry M. Wildman and First Nations Version Translation Council
–Toward Decentering the New Testament by Mitzi J. Smith and Yung Suk Kim
–Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes by Robert McAfee Brown
-Blog Post: Reading the Bible from the Edges has a list of recommendations
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The Commons
2024-08-28 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-07-24 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-06-26 08:00 - 09:00
A monthly service hosted by and for the ordained community dedicated to remembering our shared vocation as formationists. This service seeks to cultivate community and pathways to formational opportunities and is open to anyone who wishes to attend. The Commons is on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
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Preaching Table
2024-07-17 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-07-10 08:00 - 09:00, 2024-07-03 08:00 - 09:00
An initiative designed for pastors who are exploring together what it means to teach and preach a liberating Gospel of peace in their city.
There are currently 15 preaching peace tables ongoing throughout our network. Pastors and teachers, from a diversity of traditions, gather weekly around the gospel lectionary text to ask a simple question. “How do we teach and preach this text for peace from our tradition for the sake of the city?” This has sparked a growing movement of teachers and preachers forming deep community around the text from Tacoma to Nairobi to Manila.
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