Feb. 7-9

Familiar and traditional liturgy in Christian worship can be a source of comfort. But liturgies left unexamined can do harm. In this retreat timed for a month before Lent begins, we’ll explore various liturgical forms and ask – whose liturgy is this and what “work” is this liturgy doing?

Offered by Join the Movement Campaign Co-Chair, Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart, this retreat will engage participants in theological wrestling about liturgy from antiracist and decolonial perspectives, collective reading and interrogating various liturgies, and creating new liturgical forms, including songs, litanies, and prayers, for Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. Come find nourishment for your Lent journey and ways to cultivate liberating practices for your worshipping community!

Pastors can earn CEUs and/or Racial Justice training certification. 

Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart is a Black queer preacher, teacher, movement strategist, and justice advocate. She is an adjunct professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University and Arcadia University and was the Government Fellow for Religion and Public Life at Harvard Divinity School from 2022 to 2024. Rev. Naomi also serves as the first-ever Strategic Partnerships Director at Political Research Associates (PRA), a social justice research and strategy center that provides strategic insights and actionable research that identifies, disrupts, and competes with movements and institutions that undermine democracy, justice, and human rights. In 2021, Rev. Naomi founded Salt | Yeast | Light, an organization that develops spaces of spiritual education, disruption, reflection, transformation, and public action.