BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//141.193.213.20//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Union Theological Seminary X-WR-CALDESC: X-FROM-URL:https://utsnyc.edu X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-23470@utsnyc.edu DTSTAMP:20240329T125755Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Life Long Learning CONTACT:Lisa Simon\; lsimon@uts.columbia.edu DESCRIPTION:
Before COVID-19\, there was another pande mic. It was much slower moving and it involved bricks and their mortals. Multiple congregations\, of all flavors\, going slowly out of business. De ferred maintenance joined membership declines to create enormous need to c reatively adapt religious buildings to mission central and mission consist ent purposes. This course addresses this challenge\, considering it more o f an opportunity than a problem. It helps the stewards of these buildings to concretely and spiritually address the shifts in economics and purpose\ , and guides them to develop productive plans in order to survive and thri ve on their site. The course also provides an introduction for community m embers who see under-used often beautiful buildings as assets\, and for ar tists\, architects and urban planners who enjoy painting urban landscapes using existing visual context to support love of public place and space. p>\n
\nDonna Schaper w as the pastor at Judson Memorial Church for fifteen years\, where she help ed found the New York City new sanctuary movement\, the community ministry program\, and bricks and mortals. She is now part-time pastor at the Orie nt Congregational Church on the Eastern end of Long Island. She continues to be active teaching and organizing through Bricks and Mortals\, a New Yo rk City based organization that helps sacred sites find sustainable soluti ons to thrive. She also teaches leadership at the Hartford International U niversity for Religion and Peace. In her rewirement\, she is working with Bricks and Mortals on S4\, Spiritual Solutions for Sacred Sites. She has w ritten 39 books\, most recently REMOVETHEP EWS.COM. She also writes\, irreverently but spiritually\, under the pen name The Dolly Mama at Porch magazine and elsewhere.
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