Mark Gornik & Miriam Acevedo on Sacred Narrative

Dr. Mark Gornik and Miriam Acevedo delivered this lecture at Yale Divinity School on December 7th, 2016. In this presentation, Mark Gornik and Miriam Acevedo discuss the role of “singing the sacred story” in learning and transmitting Christian faith across generations and cultures. To make their case for the sacred story of Christian Faith through the practice of singing, as well as reading Scripture, praying, dancing and testifying in a church community, they share stories from New York City and of the Taizé Community in Europe.

Mark Gornik is the is the Director of City Seminary of New York and pastor of the Community Church of St. Luke in Harlem. He has spent the last 25 years as a pastor, community developer, and researcher in African churches in NYC and beyond. He is the author of To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City and Word Made Global: Stories of African Christianity in New York City, which won Christianity Today’s 2012 Book Award for Missions & Global Affairs.

Miriam Acevedo is a Licensed Minister and directs the children’s programs at Damascus Christian Church in Hunt’s Point, the South Bronx, and is both a member of the faculty and Director of Operations at City Seminary of New York.

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