DignityUSA Virtual Gathering 2024
Description
March 16, 2024 at 2pm ET / 11am PT
“I shall be their God and they shall be my people.”
Join us as we explore this promise from our loving God, which appears in the first reading for March 17, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, extended to us as LGBTQIA+ people and Allies. We will do this in prayer and presentations. All are welcome!
This event will be offered on Zoom. A link will be sent two days prior to the event.
Date: March 16, 2024
Time: 2:00 – 4:30 PM ET, 1:00 – 3:30 PM CT, 12:00 – 2:30 PM MT, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PT, 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM HT
Schedule (as of January 19, 2024):
- Welcome and Gathering Ritual
- Keynote Address by Jason Steidl Jack: Queer Faith: In Between the Past, Present, and Future of God’s Promise
- Break
- Presentation on 2025 Conference, Dublin, OH
- ***Concurrent Workshops (45 minutes)
- Reflecting on Gender Identity from a Catholic Theological Perspective: Elizabeth Sweeny Block and Maddie Marlett
- Our Global Church: Perspectives from Countries where LGBTQIA+ People are at Risk: Miroslav Mat’akva and To Be Determined
- Queer Families: Parents of Queer Children and Parenting while Queer
- Preserving Our History: Why what Happens at the Local Level Matters and How to Ensure it is Documented: LGBTQ Religious Archives Network Staff
- Aging with Dignity: How Dignity Communities are Responding: Mark Matson and Jon Schum
- Concluding Prayer
- Stay and socialize!
***Attendees will receive Zoom links for all concurrent workshops prior to the event and will choose which workshop to join by following the link to that Zoom session.
All are welcome and wanted! We are offering a sliding fee scale for attendance. If these fees do not work for you, please contact info@dignityusa.org to inquire about full or partial scholarship availability.