Course curriculum

    1. Introduction: Are we welcoming or affirming?

    2. What's Our Purpose?

    3. Welcoming and Affirming Program Oversight

    4. Support Team Role

    5. Congregational Role

    6. Facilitator Role

    7. How it Works: Program Flowchart

    8. Course Elements

    9. Devotions and Community Covenant

    10. Module Review

    11. Course Check-Ins

    12. Reflection and Homework

    13. Module One Wrap Up

    1. Module Two Introduction

    2. What is a One-to-One Visit?

    3. What a One-to-One Is (Not)

    4. How One-to-One Visits Will be Utilized in this Program

    5. Benefits of Building a Relational Culture of Organizing

    6. Large Group Discussion

    7. Sustainable Action: Planting the Seeds of Relational Organizing By Rev. Louise Green

    8. Congregations and Conflict by Rev. Dr. Anita L. Bradshaw

    9. Faithful Disagreement in Community of Christ

    10. Reflecting on Congregations and Conflict

    11. Faith Community as a System

    12. Strategies for Addressing Conflict in Congregations by W. Craig Gilliam

    13. Ten Tips on Handling Conflict

    14. Reflection and Homework

    1. Testimony: Gary Gordier

    2. Introduction

    3. Power and Privilege Pitfalls

    4. Identity and Power Pitfalls

    5. Power, Privilege and Allyship Homework

    1. Who Am I?

    2. People Over Definitions

    3. Acronyms: LGBTQIA2S+ and SOGIE

    4. Intersectionality

    5. What Does "Two-Spirit" Mean?

    6. Beyond the Binary: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Gender Expression

    7. A New Grid: Adding Asexual and Aromantic to the Continuum

    8. History of the Word 'Agender'

    9. Name Changes and Deadnaming

    10. Laverne Cox on Deadnaming Trans People

    11. Homework

    1. Introduction

    2. An Update from Harmony

    3. Required Reading

    4. Introduction to Queer/LGBTQIA2S+ History in Community of Christ

    5. National and Multi-National Conferences in Community of Christ

    6. Policy Tracker Map

    7. Worldwide Queer/LGBTQIA2S+ Legal Protections Map

    8. Homework

    1. Introduction

    2. Clobber Passages

    3. Statement on Scripture

    4. Resource: A Way of Life by Anthony Chvala-Smith

    5. How to know it's OK to be LGBTQ: Matthew 7 - Queer Theology

    6. Homework

About this course

  • Free
  • 79 lessons
  • Certificate program
  • Web-based
  • Facilitator-led

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