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New Episode of Just Talking
New Episode of “Just Talking” Now Online!
Season 1, Episode 16: Matthew 28.16-20. Lectionary A, Proper 4, Trinity Sunday
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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June’s Recommended Reading
Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power
by Rita Nakashima Brock
Winner of the 1988 Crossroad Women’s Studies Award
An emotionally provacative book, Journeys by Heart places the ‘theology of the abused child’ at the center of feminist theory. A revisioning of Christianity, it stretches traditional concepts and sheds new light on the fact that through our acts of love and lovelessness we create one another.
— The Award Advisory Commitee
Brock’s Asian and American experiences seem to have given her some remarkable insights. . . . the epilogue ‘Journeying by Heart’ is a veritable Fodor’s of feminism and femininity.
— Publishers Weekly
Brock, as a Christian theologian, is both insightful and inciting. . . . What I find most powerful in this book’s approach to the gospel is its emphasis on the need to break out of death-dealing, hierarchical patterns of life in our families and communities.
— Daughters of Sarah
Brock’s vision is compelling, original, and tantalizing. Her thesis is bold, and right as rain. Furthermore, it is indeed ’emotionally provocative’. . . . Brock has given us an important and exciting work in this volume. We can hope to hear more from this intriguing and tantalizing young theologian.
— St. Luke’s Journal of Theology
A fresh perspective on the standard problems in feminist theology. . . . This book will have broad appeal. Brock presents her ideas in an accessible way, and her theology of child abuse should interest anyone–lay person, cleric, or academic–who wants to know more about relationship of religion to feminism.
— Theology Today
Rita Nakashima Brockis Associate Professor in the Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Hamline University, former director of the Women’s Studies Program at Stephens College, and serves on the boards of several feminist, religious, and peace organizations, including the Center for the Preventions of Sexual and Domestic Violence and the editorial board of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.
Last Week’s Social Jesus Posts
Articles posted each week at https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/
The Great Commission, Part 1 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
We must be honest about how the great commission has been coopted by colonialism that has harmed Indigenous populations around the globe.
An Exchange, Part 2 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
Change is a two way street, an exchange. Those we meet, share with, and listen to leave us forever changed as well.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/05/exchange-obeying-what-jesus-taught-part2/
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 3 of Obeying What Jesus Taught
What are some of these commands that Matthew’s Jesus tells us to obey? The lion share of them are found in Jesus’ sermon on the mount.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2023/06/sermon-on-mount-what-jesus-taught-part3/
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
June 24, 2023
Good News Fellowship
(via Zoom)
Toronto, Ontario Canada
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.
For more information and for the link to participate each week, contact RHM here.
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