Sofia's Theme Park

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Created by professor of homiletics and “playful scholartivist” Rev. Dr. Lis Valle-Ruiz, Sofia's Theme Park is a virtual spirituality center designed to provide a life-giving space for church and community leaders who are exhausted and needing to renew their energies to return to changing the world. The virtual retreat offers church leaders a chance to experience rest, renewal and spiritual direction, nourish their inner child, and gain Divine Wisdom. In this episode of OP Talks, professor of Christian education Rev. Dr. Lakisha Lockhart interviews Dr. Valle-Ruiz on the power of playful worship. At her virtual theme park, participants can reconnect “with the different parts of themselves that colonization and racism and all the other -isms” have fractured. Those fractures lead to a disconnection of ourselves from that inner wisdom. “This virtual space that I call the Sofia Theme Park,” says Dr. Valle-Ruiz, “is a space for people to come and reconnect the different aspects of themselves, and continue the work of healing their inner child…the work of seeking divine wisdom—which in Greek is ‘sofía’—through play.”

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