| And Still We Rise: A Six-Part Study on Personal & Congregational Transformation Contributor(s): Bohren, Ben (Author), Pociecha, Paula (Author), Jha, Sandhya Rani (Author) |
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ISBN: 0827200544 ISBN-13: 9780827200548 Publisher: Chalice Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2007 Annotation: This study will help congregations begin to develop a scriptural understanding of transformation. It moves people through anxieties about change, the need to trust in God's power, what one has to give up in order to open oneself to God's transforming plans, and how to become transformers in a congregation and in the community. For groups of four to 400, this study can be facilitated by people of any background. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Ministry - Discipleship - Religion | Christian Education - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - General |
| Dewey: 248.486 |
| LCCN: 2007022242 |
| Physical Information: 0.13" H x 10.86" W x 8.48" (0.35 lbs) 37 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Evangelical - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Mainline |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: And Still We Rise is a six-week study to help congregations begin to develop a scriptural understanding of transformation. The study moves people through anxieties about change, the need to trust in God's power, what one has to give up in order to open oneself to God's transforming plans, and how to become transformers in a congregation and in the community. This congregational Bible study is designed to be flexible to a congregation's needs-it can be adapted to a group of four or 400, and it can be facilitated by people of any background, pastors and laypersons alike. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bohren, Ben: - Ben Bohren served for 18 months as Transitional Regional Minister for the Christian Church of Northern California-Nevada. He served for 7 years as Director of Church Relations for NBA; 7 years as Director of Church Relations for Chapman University and 20 years in pastoral ministry. His D. Min is from Lexington Theological Seminary.Pociecha, Paula: - "Paula Bishop Pociecha has served as Transitional Associate Regional Minister for the Christian Church in Northern California-Nevada since October, 2003. She has served churches in the region as intentional interim; as a consultant in revitalization, transformation and conflict resolution as well as having a life coach practice for 15 years. Her M. Div. is from Pacific School of Religion and she is currently working on her D. Min.Jha, Sandhya Rani: - Sandhya Rani Jha serves as Director at the Oakland Peace Center, a collective of innovative non-profits working to create justice and peace in the city of Oakland and the Bay Area. The OPC is also a physical space, and the legacy project of First Christian Church of Oakland, where Sandhya pastored for seven years. Ordained in 2005 at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC, Sandhya's passion is liberation ethics as an academic field and as a lived experience in urban communities. She has published Room at the Table: Struggle for Unity and Equality in Disciples History, a book about people of color in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and co-wrote (with Ben Bohren and Paula Bishop Pochieca) And Still We Rise, a congregational study of transformation. Sandhya is an anti-racism/anti-oppression trainer with the Disciples of Christ, a regular public speaker and preacher, and an occasional consultant for Hope Partnership's New Beginnings program. Sandhya also serves as Director of Interfaith Programs at East Bay Housing Organizations, a membership organization that works to preserve, protect and expand affordable housing opportunities through education, advocacy and coalition-building in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. The daughter of a mother from Scotland and a father from India, Sandhya has been shaped by both cultures and their values. Sandhya received both a Master of Divinity and Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 2005, where her joint thesis was on the subject of "Public Goods, Public Bads, the Common Good and the Common Burden: Environmental Racism as a case study on the intersection of Public Policy and Theological Ethics." It probably goes without saying that she gets far more excited about urban policy than a normal person should. |