Living Your Faith: Housing & Theology
June 15, 22, 29, and July 6 7pm
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Topic: Housing & Theology
Time: Jun 15, 2022 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
        Every week on Wed, 4 occurrence(s)
        Jun 15, 2022 07:00 PM
        Jun 22, 2022 07:00 PM
        Jun 29, 2022 07:00 PM
        Jul 6, 2022 07:00 PM

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FORMAT
This series will follow the familiar St Cross Wednesday night format.  We will gather online at 7pm. Open with a prayer. Rev. Josh will give a 15 minute presentation on the topic of the evening. We will have a brief time for clarifying questions as a large group. Then We will split into small groups for 20 minutes of discussion. Then gather back together as a large group for sharing something you learned.
READINGS
Below are the reading for each week. The reading is not required. The presenter will give a summary of the reading. You may choose to do the reading before or after.  Most of the readings will come from one book, which you are encouraged to purchase from your favorite local bookseller. There are two copies available at the church. Other readings are linked below as a PDF file or link to the article in which they were published.
Week 1: Place Matters ...to God.
Week one we will discuss the concept of Place. How is Place understood in our Theology and our Liturgy? The reading comes from "The Space Between" by Eric. O Jacobsen.
Book Chapter
Here is link to a pdf of the chapter from Jacobsen for this week.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gm9u-Iv4LhSqsHe0-JofGRX9YQ7tp6e2/view?usp=sharing 
Magazine Article:
Can't read the whole chapter? Read this interview with Eric by Fuller Studio.
https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/theology/reclaiming-place-in-a-disengaged-world-an-interview-with-eric-o-jacobsen/
Week 2: Housing History in the U.S.
Week two we will discuss the history of housing in the U.S. How different paradigms expressed throughout different eras might reflect an implicit or explicit theology. The reading will come from "Disrupting Homelessness Alternative Christian Approaches" by Laura Stivers. Chapter 2 "Homelessness and Housing in the U.S." Mixed Media: Segregated by Design animated Short film.
Week 2: Reading "Homelessness and Housing in the U.S." Laura Stivers
WEEK 2: This animated video is a summary of the book "The Color of Law"
Week 3: Housing as an Ecosystem
Week three will discuss housing as commodity, social good, or community. Reading: Pluralist Housing Ethics (Excerpt). Mixed Media: Seaside City of Ideas.
Our Pluralist Housing Ethics.
Here is a link to the pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eFNRai0DtWWSTZ4nSq9A6Na9b3FOeC45/view?usp=sharing

This is an excerpt from an article in a law review journal. A very meaty read.
Week 3: Seaside: City of Ideas
Seaside: City of Ideas
Andres Duany emphasizes incremental developmental as environmental and economic benefits. It also benefits our christian theology seeing community as an ecology that needs a variety of housing options if we want to welcome all of God's diverse creation.

Week 4: Loving Your Neighborhood
Week four we will discuss Christian practices of neighborliness. The reading will be chapter 7 from Stivers: "A Home for All in God's Just and Compassionate Community."  The media  material will be a podcast interview with Eric O Jacobsen, whom we read in the beginning.  
Week 4 Reading: "A Home for All in God's Compassionate Community" Laura Stivers
PODCAST
https://www.embeddedchurch.com/jacobsen-interview Pastor Eric Jacobsen talks about different strategies his church has used and different spiritual practices he has personally adopted in order to better connect with his surrounding community.

Alt Link for Podcast
If the above link didn't work, try this link and scroll down to episode 4 of season 1 https://www.embeddedchurch.com/season-1 
VIDEO: Marmalade Lane
https://youtu.be/p1drtxhtpmk See how the design of the housing can serve the purposes of connection and compassion between the neighbors. It's not trying to force them to be friends. But simply good neighbors. What design features did you notice that helped build connections between neighbors?
Prayer for Cities
Found on page 815 of the Book of Common Prayer

33. For Cities

Heavenly Father, in your Word you have given us a vision of
that holy City to which the nations of the world bring their
glory: Behold and visit, we pray, the cities of the earth.
Renew the ties of mutual regard which form our civic life.
Send us honest and able leaders. Enable us to eliminate
poverty, prejudice, and oppression, that peace may prevail
with righteousness, and justice with order, and that men and
women from different cultures and with differing talents may
find with one another the fulfillment of their humanity;
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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