Workshops
Designed to help realize the vision of creating cities of peace for all people where everyone belongs, especially the most vulnerable.
We regularly offer workshops as part of a conversation designed for leaders who want to cultivate faith communities for the sake of their city and the most vulnerable. We hope that these workshops help leaders work towards creating cities of peace for all people – that is our mission at Street Psalms.
All of the workshops are open to all who wish to join us.
About the Workshops
Each year, we host five different workshops connected to one of the five chapters in our seminary's primary text, See.Do.Be.Free.: A Field Guide for Becoming a Community in Mission. While you can complete the workshops in as little as one year, the kind of conversation we have in mind gets worked out in community, over time, and always in context. All of these workshops are designed for those who are embedded within a local community where they can work out the implications of the conversations over the long haul. We hope to jump start a conversation with your leadership team who will become your primary learning community.
Missioned Into Being: Becoming a Community in Mission (CiM)
In this workshop we will focus on Jesus’s practical ecclesiology: his vision for the church – or what we refer to as a “Community in Mission” – and highlight the essential gifts of a bed, a bath and a meal for this type of community. This conversation lays the foundation for the remaining workshops in the series. We will be joined by Brian McLaren, author, speaker, activist and public theologian.
Incarnational Hermeneutic: The Interpretive Task of a CiM
In this workshop we will explore Jesus’s way of interpreting reality – his way of seeing God, reading Scripture and making sense of life itself. We will be joined by Peter Choi, Executive Director of the Center for Faith and Justice and a pastor in San Francisco, California.
Incarnational Method: The Formational Task of a CiM
In this workshop we will consider Jesus’s highly relational method of formation known as induction – a commitment to walking with those he loved, apprenticing them, and helping them make sense of things along the way. We will be joined by Julia Robinson Moore, a scholar of African American religion and a minister within the Presbytery of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Incarnational Design: The Creational Task of a CiM
In this workshop we will tap into the creational nature of humans and apply it to the work of social innovation for the sake of the city and the most vulnerable. We will be joined by Father Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.
Incarnational Framework: The Evaluative Task of a CiM
In this workshop we look at the underlying questions regarding Jesus’s way of seeing, doing and being, and how it frees us to love and serve. We will be joined by Sarah Moore, co-founder of Beyond Data, Senior Fellow for Applied Research at Street Psalms, and Professor Emerita at the University of Puget Sound.