Pastoring in a Day of Political Turmoil

Thursday, April 23
Clergy Seminar
Benediction Farm

 We gather together to learn from one another in discussion.

  • What have you experienced and what lessons have you learned in pastoring a congregation deeply divided politically?

  • How has political division affected preaching, worship, and discipleship?

  • How has it affected you personally?

Format of the Day

9:30-10 a.m. Arrival and refreshments

10-11:30 a.m. Opening discussion of the question

11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Material presented by Dr. Gregory Thompson
“Becoming Dissident Pastors: Nurturing Dissident Congregations”

12:30-2:30 p.m. Lunch and further discussion with Dr. Thompson


Introducing Dr. Gregory Thompson

Gregory Thompson serves as Founder and Principal of Convivium, a Creative Strategy Consulting Firm. He is the author of “The Welcome Table”, a column on Hospitality and Culture at Comment Magazine and co-author of the award winning Reparations: A Christian Call to Repentance and Repair. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia where he wrote his dissertation on the moral imagination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He is a Deacon in the Diocese of Church for the Sake of Others and is in process of transferring to DOMA.


Date: Thursday April 23
Cost: $30
Space is limited to thirty participants. 

Venue:
Benediction Farm
5407 South Blue Ridge Turnpike
Rochelle, VA 22738
Phone:  434-242-3089

Further questions: Contact Rev. Wade Bradshaw wadef.bradshaw@ gmail.com, or Rev. David Comeau david@allsoulsrva.org.


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