Sacred Contamination: Embracing the Messy Call of Christian Love
The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and the You Have Permission podcast invite you to an exclusive pre-conference meal ahead of Theology Beer Camp 2024. This engaging event features thought-provoking discussion and embodied learning. Join licensed therapists, theologians, and culinarians to explore the transformative power of contamination.
Partnering with local craft brewers and chefs, we offer guests the opportunity to learn and taste how bacteria revolutionize food and drink to become nourishing and delicious through fermentation. Discover new perspectives on purity, disgust, and contamination as our panelists delve into their innovative concepts and challenge conventional evangelical boundaries. This is a unique opportunity to explore how these ideas can reshape our understanding of holiness and community in today’s world.
What’s Included:
- Panel Discussion: Engage with our expert panelists as they reflect on inclusive love and moral purity from theological and psychological perspectives.
- Q&A Session: Interact with panelists and Dan Koch for a dynamic dialogue.
- Food and Beverages: Enjoy delicious food and a selection of beverages provided for all participants.
- Connection: Connect with fellow attendees in an informal, relaxed setting.
- Gift Journal Access: Receive a free copy of The Seattle School’s journal, The Other Journal, as well as a one-year subscription to this acclaimed publication.
Dwight J. Friesen[he . they] is Professor of Practical Theology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology where his research and teaching focus on discovering, learning with, and training leaders for the “church” emerging after Christendom. He is a founding board member of Parish Collective with its Inhabit Conference, and works internationally with the Urban Shalom Society in service of UN-Habitat; mobilizing the world’s religions to engage the United Nations “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) as faithful expressions of their respective faith and cultural traditions. Dwight is author and contributor to a number of books, including: 2020s Foresight, The New Parish, and Thy Kingdom Connected.
Billie Hoard is a trans woman, a high school history teacher, an author, and something of an Anabaptist radical. A consummate generalist, she holds an MA in liberal arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, and she writes on topics ranging from disgust theology and eucontamination to fairy tales and C. S. Lewis.
Paul Hoard is a licensed counselor and associate professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. He completed the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. A “third culture kid,” he was raised in Ankara, Turkey, and has provided mental health counseling and clinical supervision in the United States, Ukraine, and Turkey. His research and scholarly work primarily focus on the intersection of perpetration trauma, eucontamination, white-body supremacy, games, and psychoanalytic theory.
Dan Koch hosts the You Have Permission podcast and is a licensed therapist in the state of Washington. His Spiritual Harm & Abuse Scale was published in May 2022 in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. He’s most interested in overlapping questions and interactions between psychology and religion/spirituality.
Lauren Peiser is the Director of Partnerships at The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology where she focuses on cultivating mutually beneficial collaborations with outside organizations. Before this role, she spent multiple years working in the food and wine industry (including harvesting grapes and making wine in Sonoma and New Zealand) and holds multiple certificates in wine education. Her passions and writing focus on the intersection of spirituality, sensuality, and food.