The Impact of Lived Theologies on Pastoral Practices
May 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
You are invited to a Leadership Academy Zoom Session on Thursday, May 16, at 7:00 PM.
The Impact of Lived Theologies on Pastoral Practices, led by Rev. Dr. Rode Molla, aims to provide pastors and leaders with care practices to create welcoming spaces. Those who register to attend will be sent the relevant pages from the text.
Rev. Dr. Rode Molla’s book, A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia’s Era of Identity Politics, provides the basis for this session exploring how leaders may sustain lived and embodied theologies that impede holistic flourishing for their congregations or institutions. At the same time, institutions and churches lived and embodied theologies could also be life-limiting for the leaders, congregants, and communities. Therefore, I claim to provide socially, and politically liberating care praxis, pastors and leaders need to assess their own and their institutions’ historically embodied and lived theologies. The care practices that emerge from interrogating lived theologies may enable pastoral care caregivers to construct culturally relevant and socially just spaces that make individuals and communities feel they belong. So, in this workshop, we will discuss and design lived theologies and articulate deliberative and intentional care theologies and practices in social and political spaces.