With the 2024 election less than a year away, the Walker Leadership Institute in partnership with the Bridge Alliance launched the Praxis program in January with a half day workshop. Featuring lay and clergy faith leaders committed to justice, mercy, and humility, as they lead in the contentious election season ahead. A subscription-based program, new content will be added throughout the 2024 election season. Especially suited for those who are in purple spaces, whether those are in your congregation, community, or family, the session are conversations between two leaders living faithfully into the difficult election ahead.
Subscribers have access to all Praxis conversations, past present and future.
If you have not subscribed to the on-going Praxis series, you can access all past and future content by signing up at the Praxis site. For those who are enrolled, a ZOOM invite will be sent out ahead of each session.
To learn more, or to find out about the special alum discount, contact Steve Lawler, director of the Walker Leadership Institute @ Eden – slawler@eden.edu
Praxis Conversations Continue
The next three Thursday nights will bring you Eden alumni, poets, community organizers, and pastors in conversations about how they are negotiating the difficult 2024 election season that lies ahead.
Upcoming conversations are:
April 18th: Two 2018 alums, DeMarco Davidson, Executive Director of Metropolitan Congregations United (MCU), and the Rev Christie Tennyson, UCC Pastor and Senior Development Officer at Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services, are in conversation about the dynamics of working in spaces where the challenges of progressive Christian commitments are often hotly contested.
April 25th: The Rev Dr Marian Allen-Edmonds, Executive Director of Parity, Director of Blessed by Difference and Holy Dialogues, returns to be in conversation with the Rev Lauren Bennet, Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis, as they engage the challenges and opportunities of engaging those who make religious claims against LGBT rights and marriage equality.
May 2nd: Pádraig Ó Tuama, Irish poet, theologian, and conflict mediator, author of a dozen books, including the recently published Being Here: Prayers of Curiosity, Justice and Love, will be in conversation with Develyn Hill, Eden MCL student, poet and the Executive Director of Speaking Down Barriers as they explore how poetry expresses and expands the Spirit's possibilities in places of conflict and oppression.
Additional Praxis conversations will be added throughout the summer and fall, and a fall workshop is planned for September.
