Seminars & Services
Political Theology Toolkits
The Political Theology Toolkits listed below offer you great flexibility in choosing the program that best suits the needs of your group or congregation.
For each PTT listed here, Marcia highly recommends we share an agape meal/dinner, including Holy Eucharist (HE), with an interactive homily. From there we explore our rights, work through some IRS-501 (c)(3) scenarios for churches. We need to understand our call to public theology through our biblical tradition, and we will explore some important passages to clarify our calls.
Bethlehem
Spend an evening or Saturday morning for a “how to” crash course on understanding what political/public theology is about.
Jerusalem
A 1-day “how to” course that builds on our starting place in Bethlehem. This PTT is more in depth than the Bethlehem PTT. It offers more group work to develop a beginner political theology action project.
Mediterranea
A multiple day seminar specifically designed for a diocesan or other judicatory staff, a group of parishes, and/or for a general audience at a convention, involving a keynote address, preaching and teaching by Marcia Ledford.
Services
Consulting
Prior to determining the correct combination of services, Marcia will spend time with you, in person or via Zoom. It will help Marcia to understand what challenges you and the congregation are facing, so that she can fully prepare for our time together.
Speaking
Marcia is available for keynote addresses on a variety of topics. She will consider specific subject requests. Please contact her for more information and a custom quotation for speaker’s fees.
Preaching
After consulting with you, Marcia can preach based on those conversations and will use the Revised Common Lectionary or a specific passage as appropriate. She can preach as part of the PTT or as a Sunday guest preacher and celebrant.
Your take-aways from The Bethlehem Seminar:
- You will be able to give a definition of political theology that is easy to remember to anyone who asks.
- You will be able to describe two foundational biblical stories about the primary political theologians of the Bible, Moses and Jesus. You will be able to explain our call to political theology by applying the Call of Moses, and Jesus’ Call to the followers on The Road to Emmaus.
- You will be able to describe what rights the First Amendment gives us and how we can use them as individuals and through charitable work.
- You will be able to explain why it is vital that we understand our personal and group sources of power through personality inventories and asset-mapping.
- You will be able to identify a special skill that you bring to Christ’s table to do mission through political theology.
In Bethlehem, our Savior was born thus beginning God’s incarnation on earth.
In The Bethlehem Seminar our mission as political theologians begins . . .