Distinguished Alumni Deborah Lee and COVID-19 on Immigrant Communities
Rev. Deborah Lee, one of PSR’s 2020 Distinguished Alumni award recipients, is the Executive Director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, where she has served since 2009. Below she shares how her organization is responding to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in immigrant communities. See Rev. Lee’s full Distinguished Alumni profile here. First, I wanted to share a…
February 23-24: Financial Sustainability and Community Innnovation in the Church Summit
This Summit is part of a 3-part program series from the Ignite Institute at Pacific School of Religion and the Path 1 Initiative of the United Methodist Church to support faith leaders in establishing financial sustainability by taking a community-based business from idea, to proposal, to reality. The Summit invites clergy and lay leaders to hear from successful faith-based…
2017 Georgia Harkness Lecture: “Doubleweaving Resistance: Two-Spirit Stories, Theories, and Futures” with Qwo-Li Driskill
Doubleweave is a basket weaving technique in Southeastern Indigenous traditions in which separate inside and outside patterns emerge through one continuous weave. Drawing on the concept of doubleweave as both a material practice and political framework, this talk will weave together scholarship, poetry, and performance to honor Indigenous Two-Spirit/LGBTQ resistances to ongoing settler colonialism in…
Community Worship—March 24, 2020
You are invited to refer this bulletin for our Zoom Community Worship at 11:10am, Tuesday, March 24. You can join the gathering as follows: by Zoom from any computer or smartphone: https://zoom.us/j/793319236. from the Zoom app, enter Meeting ID 793 319 236. from a landline or mobile phone, dial 669 900 6833 and enter Meeting ID…
A Mantra for a Pandemic: God is our Refuge
Modeled on Psalm 46 (NRSV and The Voice, adapted by Rev. Todd Atkins-Whitley) Read in a gathering, the community is invited to sign or say aloud the words shown in bold and supply the words in pink. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. …in a pandemic …in…
Bulletin for Community Worship—March 17, 2020
Please refer to this bulletin for our Zoom Community Worship at 11:10am, Tuesday, March 17. You can join the gathering as follows: https://zoom.us/j/829606149 One tap mobile +16699006833,,829606149# US (San Jose) Dial by your location +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 829 606 149
Pacific Islander Formation
Pacific Islander Formation On February 15, 2020, PSR’s Pacific Islander students, sponsored by the Asian American Initiative at PSR, hosted a conversation and celebration of Pacific Islander topics focused on spiritual and identity formation. In recognition of Pacific Islander faith and culture, this full day of student-led workshops, insightful guest speakers, and traditional and contemporary…
Hunger Forum with Barbara Lee at PSR
PSR Community continues in prayer as UMC discerns next steps
Dear PSR Community: A news release from the UMC announced this last week that “A diverse, 16-member group of United Methodist bishops and other leaders has offered a proposal that would preserve The United Methodist Church while allowing traditionalist-minded congregations to form a new denomination.” The unofficial group representing progressive, centrist, and conservative leaders as…
Finding Harmony
I was born in Oakland, California. My parents were pastors, but my elders were Black Panthers. I was trained to live and be willing to lay down my life for my people. I was trained to help people struggle for a life worth living in honor of God. My elders were ideological Communists based heavily in…