Faith in the City Workshop Series: How do we talk about sexuality as Christians?

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January 6 – 9, 2015 at Virginia Union University

This course is offered to the Richmond Community free of charge. Full attendance is required for course credit. Persons may attend all or part of the program. Lunch will be provided every day. The event will be held on campus at Virginia Union University. 

We will seek in this course to model the desire of God for human community.  We come together not to destroy and defeat one another, but to seek life.  We encounter one another with grace and Christian hospitality.

We want to examine sexuality  in the context of other large theological challenges which surround us and bear on this topic.

Objectification of people.  We are in the midst of an epidemic that objectifies other human beings for the purposes of personal gratification; a commodification, a functional attitude that forecloses any possibility  of intimacy.

Breakdown of the family.  Part of the breakdown of the family is that we commodify each other. Relationship is about me having a good time. It is not a function of sexuality — it’s a function of sociological pain.

Jan. 6 Tuesday  9 a.m. – 2 p.m. (Lunch 11:30) How do we talk about sexuality as Christians? Objectification and sexuality. Emancipating the Bible

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Jan. 7 Wednesday 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch 11:30 Objectification and Identity Construction in the 21st Century. Current Physiological Research. Healthy Relationships

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Jan. 8 Thursday 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch 11:30 Dealing with sexuality in Christian churches. Conversation with a variety of local pastors with different theology and experience

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Jan. 9 Friday 9 a.m. – 12 noon Lunch 11:30 Toward a new Sexual Theology

The Faculty will include:

Dr. John W. Kinney, Dean and Professor of Theology, STVU

Dr. Patricia Gould-Champ, Assistant Professor of Practical Theology, STVU

Dr. Alison Gise-Johnson, Director of Doctor of Ministry Program, STVU

Dr. Benjamin P. Campbell, Senior Pastor of Richmond Hill

Please register in advance with Yvette Goode, Faculty Secretary, Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology, Virginia Union University, 257-5715.

Co-sponsored by Faith Community Baptist Church and Richmond Hill