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The Church of the Covenant
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.) 11205 Euclid Avenue · Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Phone: (216) 421-0482 Fax: (216) 791-2228 |
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The Church of the Covenant
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (U.S.A.) 11205 Euclid Avenue · Cleveland, Ohio 44106 Phone: (216) 421-0482 Fax: (216) 791-2228 |
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Sunday Morning Adult Christian Education
Liberation Theology Matters. . .Still
Liberation theology emerged in the late 1960s in Latin America, where Catholics began reading the Gospel as a call to free people from oppression and to challenge political systems in impoverished countries. While liberation theology may be fading as a movement, it is still practiced in some areas and studied widely in schools in the United States and throughout the world. Some say liberation theology has taken new life in groups marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, where the focus is on critiquing mainstream civil society, and in a host of groups working for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation. In this adult forum, four theologians will speak about the continuing usefulness of liberation theologies for looking at the challenge of responding to changing political and social environments today.
September 9
September 16
September 23
September 30
Homelessness in Cleveland
Brian Davis, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless, and Lyn Tomaszewski, Covenant member and administrator of the Cleveland Foundation's Civic Innovation Grant, will speak about recent efforts to curb panhandling and to improve conditions for the homeless in Cleveland, as well as the role of individual charity.
Incarceration Nation: Imprisonment in the United States
October 28
November 4
November 11
50 New Hymns: Singing Praises to the Living God in the 21st Century
In this adult forum, Dr. Adel Heinrich, assisted by Todd Wilson and members of the Covenant Choir, will introduce her new book, 50 New Hymns: Singing Praises to the Living God in the 21st Century, for which she wrote both text and music. With the increasing inter-cultural diversity in the world of the 21st century, Heinrich is hopeful that her hymns may add another dimension to assuring the living presence of God in our lives. We will have the opportunity of singing several of the hymns. Adel Heinrich is Professor of Music Emeritus from Colby College in Maine, where she taught courses in music and served as Organist/Director of Music in Lorimer Chapel for 24 years. She has been a member of Church of the Covenant, to whose members her new book is dedicated, since 1998. When she was pursuing her Bachelor's degree in music at Case, with a minor in biblical literature, she performed on the organ at Covenant on several occasions and also on the organ at Severance Hall.
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In 2005, there were nearly 2.2 million prison inmates in the United States and nationwide over 600,000 inmates are being released from prison annually. Our nation has the dubious distinction of leading the world with an incarceration rate of 737 per 100,000 residents. This adult forum will address the reasons so many people are in jails and prisons, the characteristics of the prison populations and the impact of incarceration on communities and families. We will also explore ministries addressing the spiritual needs of prisoners and their families and those who work in the prison environment, as well as efforts to reduce recidivism and enhance the quality of released prisoners' lives and the life of the community they re-enter.
