A Different Lens Worship with Francisco Herrera

A Different Lens Worship with Francesco Herrera

About once a month we have a worship service where we ask a BIPOC and/or queer person to share with us a Bible story that is meaningful to them, perhaps with a different meaning than the interpretation passed down through the years from mostly white male theologian’s voices. 

This month, we’ll hear from Francisco Herrera, a PhD student at the Lutheran Theological Seminary of Chicago. The focus of all of Francisco’s love and labor is to make spaces where people from every background and story – immigrant, Latinx, African American, Indigenous, and LGBTQ backgrounds, people living with disabilities, etc. – can come together and understand how their stories can heal, strengthen, and act as the foundation of new, highly-attentive communities in a kind of “mestizaje integral.” As an academic he has coordinated conferences and revivals on decolonization and the church; as a teacher he regularly uses ritual, music, slam poetry, and drawing in his lectures to demonstrate postcolonial pedagogical and study methods; and as an activist he regularly coordinates direct action and fundraising for the sake of any and all efforts to bring justice to and heal God’s fractured creation.