Posts from July 2014 (Page 2)

Toward Sunday

We conclude our worship series on The World Cup and turn our attention to Marion Grau, a German theologian who teaches in Berkeley at Church Divinity School of the Pacific.  Grau’s writing invites us critical rethinking of binary concepts that have dominated much of Western Christian thought. Outline for World Cup June 15: Genesis 1.1-2.4a (Brazil – Ivone Gebara) June 22: Genesis 22.1-14 (Ghana – Mercy Amba Oduyoye) June 29: Genesis 21.8-21 (Croatia – Miroslav Volf) July 6: Romans 7.15-25a (USA – George Tinker) July 13: Genesis 25.19-34 (Germany – Marion Grau) Think…

Listening Pays

A powerful old story captures the importance of the messages that we listen to inside of our heads. An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life: “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.” It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy,…

Relatives

People ask George Tinker about the Osage view on non-violence.  He replies:  “We don’t have that word in our language because we know that we have to eat lunch.  And you can’t eat lunch without perpetrating violence on our relatives.  Whether it is corn, or buffalo or elk.  We will disrupt the life of that relative in order to live.  The end result is that we must find a way to restore the balance as we disrupt it. ” In…
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