Day 10 encourages us ‘don’t give up space’.
There is no better book or resource that I could point you toward that “Making Room For Leadership: Power, Space & Influence” by MaryKate Morse.
When you hear a quote from a theologian or a voice from Christian history – when you read something like chapter 9 in this book … it asks for something from you.
Our moment is asking us a question and providing for us an opportunity. The times that we live in call for a re-evaluation of priorities and an examination of our relationship to power.
2 quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer for your Advent week 1 reflections.
Words are powerful: both in their elemental nature & as floating signifiers. Some people protest the fluid nature of language – but this lens can be helpful to understand why.
What if ‘hope’ is like a memory: it is not located in any one place but is created and accessed what a constellation (configuration) or elements are activated at the same time?
3 minutes – let me know what you think.
Sidenote: Day 6 was actually about chapter 7 (sorry for the confusion)
We never start from scratch. There is no blank slate. We don’t operate in a vacuum.
Our work as humanity, communities of faith, and activist-organizers is working with what is to bring about what can be.
It is like a cosmic Scrabble game.
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Elizabeth Johnson was right – our language about God functions.
I am reading two ‘advent’ devotionals and they both quote Bonhoeffer.
and I am just not sure that I am there.
There is a metaphorical – demythologized – deconstructed – linguistic turn that can be really helpful to the way that we conceptualize and talk about ancient concepts.
Event, in philosophy, is a happening whose outcome exceeds that which one would expect if you just added up the smaller component parts.
So the ‘miracle of birth’ is not super-natural … but actually the most natural thing in the world. The same for the ‘the miracle on the Hudson’.
We can use that same permission to address the antiquated notion of ‘spirits’.
What IF we took each other seriously?
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