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Last Week’s Episode of Just Talking!
Season 1, Episode 23: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52. Lectionary A, Proper 12
Each week, we’ll be talking about the gospel lectionary reading for the upcoming weekend. We’ll be talking about each reading in the context of love, inclusion, and societal justice. Our hope is that our talking will be just talking (as in justice) and that during our brief conversations each week you’ll be inspired to also do more than just talking.
If you teach from the lectionary each week, or if you’re just looking for some thoughts on the Jesus story from a more progressive perspective within the context of social justice, check it out, you might like it.
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August’s Recommended Reading
Indigenous Theology and the Western Worldview: A Decolonized Approach to Christian Doctrine
by Randy S. Woodley
This volume by a Cherokee teacher, former pastor, missiologist, and historian brings Indigenous theology into conversation with Western approaches to history and theology.
Written in an accessible, conversational style that incorporates numerous stories and questions, this book exposes the weaknesses of a Western worldview through a personal engagement with Indigenous theology. Randy Woodley critiques the worldview that undergirds the North American church by dismantling assumptions regarding early North American histories and civilizations, offering a comparative analysis of worldviews, and demonstrating a decolonized approach to Christian theology.
Woodley explains that Western theology has settled for a particular view of God and has perpetuated that basic view for hundreds of years, but Indigenous theology originates from a completely different DNA. Instead of beginning with God-created humanity, it begins with God-created place. Instead of emphasizing individualism, it emphasizes a corporateness that encompasses the whole community of creation. And instead of being about the next world, it is about the tangibility of our lived experiences in this present world. The book encourages readers to reject the many problematic aspects of the Western worldview and to convert to a worldview that is closer to that of both Indigenous traditions and Jesus.
Last Week’s Social Jesus Posts
Articles posted each week at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/
The Kingdom, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 1
Ironically, kingdom imagery was intended to help the church replace any earthly “king,” and make way for a more egalitarian community.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/07/kingdom-kingdom-parables-for-social-change-part-1/
Mustard and Yeast, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 2
In the stories, it threatened the status quo and was deemed as yeast, a corrupting leaven and mustard, a noxious weed. Does it today?
Old and New, “Kingdom” Parables for Social Change Part 3
When what we thought was life-giving turns out not to be, we can hold on to the good old, letting go of the bad old, and replace it with new.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/07/old-new-kingdom-parables-for-social-change-part-3/
It’s Here!
Herb’s new book is now available through Renewed Heart Ministries.
Finding Jesus: A story of a Fundamentalist preacher who unexpectedly discovered the social, political, and economic teachings of the Gospels
by Herb Montgomery
Pages: 210
Price: $14.95
Get your copy today!
To purchase click here.
UPCOMING EVENTS
August 26, 2023
Edgewood Presbyterian Church
Lewisburg WV, 24901
For info: 304.520.0030
August 26, 2023
Good News Fellowship
(via Zoom)
Toronto, Ontario Canada
For info: 304.520.0030
Weekly Zoom HeartGroup on Wednesday Nights
Each Wednesday evening, Glendale City Church will be hosting a Zoom-HeartGroup led by Herb Montgomery. Our discussion each week will focus on the content in Renewed Heart Ministries’ weekly eSight articles and the Jesus For Everyone podcast published each Friday. The time of each Zoom session will be on Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. Pacific/10:00 p.m. Eastern.
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