The Table Church DC

Theology Cafe: Black Theology with Dr. Adam Clark

Sunday, February 12, 2023.

This year we're introducing Theology Cafe. We're going to start questioning the default by looking at the wide variety of other ways of constructing our theology. Everyone does theology. Even the statement, "I don't need theology," is a form of theology. 

Our plan for 2023 is to every few months take a look at a different lens and experience of theology. Feminist, Asian American Women, Queer, Latinx, and Indigenous Theology. This month, in light of Black History Month, we're taking a look at Black Theology.

In each Theology cafe, we're going to invite a practitioner and scholar of the week's theme to share with us. 

Today, we have a pre-recorded video by Dr. Adam Clark of Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH. He currently serves as co-chair of the Black Theology Group at the American Academy of Religion and actively publishes in the area of black theology and black religion and participates in social justice groups.  He is committed to the idea that theological education in the twenty-first century must function as a counter-story—one that equips us to read against the grain of the dominant culture and inspires one to live into the dictum of St. Ignatius, of going forth "to set the world on fire."

Erin Byrne - Shift to Intergenerational Community

Sunday, February 5, 2023. How do we care for families with kids? How do we care for people without partners or children? And how do children show us the way? Erin Byrne tells us how!

Anthony Parrott: From Compulsion to Change to Freedom to Grow

Sunday, January 29, 2023. Have you been told that God must separate Themself from you because of your sin? Or that you needed to hide some significant part of yourself because it was unacceptable to God? That breaks attachment, and makes us feel like we must always be worried if our relationship with God is "good." The good news, though, is God's love for us truly is conditional. And that when Jesus asks us to rest, it's with no strings attached. 

Tonetta Landis-Aina: From Cynicism to Enchantment

Sunday, January 22, 2023. It's far to easy to intellectualize our faith to the point where we lose all sense of magic or mystery. What it would be like to, like Moses, notice a burning bush and actually turn aside to pay attention to it. And believe that God may turn Their attention to us as well.

Tonetta Landis-Aina and Anthony Parrott: Shifting from Power to Kenosis

Sunday, January 15, 2023. 

Anthony Parrott: 4 Questions from the Magi (Matthew 2:1-10)

Pastor Anthony compares the story of the Magi with 4 key questions from the book "Four Thousand Weeks" by Oliver Burkeman.

Where in your life or your work are you currently pursuing comfort, when what's called for is a little discomfort?

In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be?

In which areas of life are you still holding back until you feel like you know what you're doing?

How would you spend your days differently if you didn't care so much about seeing your actions reach fruition?

Heidi Mills: New Years 2023

Tonetta Landis-Aina and Anthony Parrott: Christmas Eve 2022

Don't confuse maturity with cynicism.