Worship in Troubled Times

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Taught by PSR. Public worship is one of the primary collective acts of faith communities. As such, worship offers crucial opportunities for communities to grapple with the pressing social issues, struggles for justice, and conflicts of our time. This course explores the ways in which worship can serve our communities when the times are troubled. How can we creatively engage in truth-telling, justice-making and lament through ritual, prayer, word and song? What strategies for worship can offer hope and resilience in times of social unrest and struggle? What resources does our worship offer for resisting racism, classism, patriarchy, heterosexism, colonialism, etc. in their particularities and their intersections? How do we create worship services that address important issues, hold the complexities of those concerns, and generate imaginative possibilities for transformation? Through reading, discussion, case studies and worship planning and design, we will discover ways to worship that help us to live and lead as spiritually and theologically rooted people of faith in unsettled and unsettling times.