liturgy of “Eucontamination”

Q Christian Fellowship invites you to an exclusive pre-conference gathering in partnership with The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology. Enjoy special drinks and snacks as we engage in a liturgy of “Eucontamination” or contamination for good.

Building off Paul and Billie Hoard’s popular breakout session at Q Christian Fellowship from last year that introduced the concept of eucontamination, The Seattle School invites you into an embodied experience with our faculty members and friends to discover new perspectives on purity, disgust, and contamination.

Partnering with local craft brewers specializing in spontaneously fermented drinks, we offer guests the opportunity to learn and taste the positive power of contamination and bacterial belonging.

This pre-conference gathering includes:

  • Embodied Learning: Unpack the core ideas of Eucontamination through an embodied liturgy 

  • Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Explore fermentation as a metaphor to queer our politics and ways of belonging

  • Community Connection: Connect with fellow attendees in an informal, relaxed setting.

  • Gift Journal Access: Receive a free digital subscription to The Seattle School's journal, The Other Journal


Two registration options: 

  • Happy Hour Option: Arrive at 7:00 pm

    • Eat dinner on your own beforehand and join us for the main event!

    • Includes delicious drinks and snacks

    • $30 per person

  • Pizza Add-On (+$15): Arrive at 6:15 pm 

    • Enjoy locally made pizza, salads, and gluten-free options from Glide Pizza before the event formally begins

    • Includes dinner + delicious drinks and snacks

    • $45 per person 

About The Other Journal:
The Other Journal is a twice-yearly print and digital journal that aims to “tell it slant.” Straddling the line between scholarly and popular writing, the journal provides readers with provocative, challenging, nuanced Christian perspectives on social issues, politics, cultural trends, pop phenomena, and theological ideas of the highest caliber. Each issue, organized around a particular theme, includes essays, book reviews, creative nonfiction, poetry, interviews, and original art.

Time and Date:
Wednesday, January 22
Main Event: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Pizza Add-On: arrive at 6:15 pm

Location:
Oakhurst Baptist Church
222 East Lake Drive, Decatur, Georgia 30030

Our Speakers:

  • Billie Hoard

    Billie Hoard (she/her) 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

    Paul Hoard (he/him) 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.

  • Dwight J. Friesen

    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. They are a founding board member ofParish Collective with its Inhabit Conference, and works internationally with theUrban Shalom Society in service ofUN-Habitat; mobilizing the world’s religions to engage theUnited 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.

  • Lauren Peiser

    Lauren Peiser (she/her) 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.