tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-213466962024-02-03T04:03:53.029-05:00On Not Being a SausageFrom The Teachings of Silvanus: "Do not be a sausage which is full of useless things."Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.comBlogger1419125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-58944255293999058732023-02-18T10:27:00.003-05:002023-02-18T10:27:28.124-05:00Podcast Conversations with contributors to Borderlands of Theological Education<p> Just thrilled that our podcast conversations with contributors to <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978715332/Borderlands-of-Theological-Education">Borderlands of Theological Education</a> are available here:</p><p>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-borderlands-of-theological-education/id1667035814</p><p>It was a wonderful experience to have these conversations with authors and I believe we brought out highlights of each essay!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-16070234255455793532023-01-05T10:27:00.005-05:002023-01-05T10:27:45.993-05:00Borderlands of Theological Education Book Party<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_Nu_5wYAm_wJOFBM3B__yR58l-cAkdUeoxPG7d2Q9eX0LDWfPyjc9x6ASmc2AcaQbpmfHbP8zjZL0H_rRS6ZhZ8dpECja2XhUHATH69Di1uK4MX2MGHn6Nr3oYpUDqjbCFyNQCwzWITyBMSColZsCKtbd5XK7Dw1hAR1Tbw7FRXK1ZVcrQ/s506/Borderlands%20of%20Theological%20Education%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_Nu_5wYAm_wJOFBM3B__yR58l-cAkdUeoxPG7d2Q9eX0LDWfPyjc9x6ASmc2AcaQbpmfHbP8zjZL0H_rRS6ZhZ8dpECja2XhUHATH69Di1uK4MX2MGHn6Nr3oYpUDqjbCFyNQCwzWITyBMSColZsCKtbd5XK7Dw1hAR1Tbw7FRXK1ZVcrQ/s320/Borderlands%20of%20Theological%20Education%20cover.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><br /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks to Dean Robyn Neville, the Dean of CCFL in the Diocese of SE Florida, our second book party for</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><b class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Borderlands of Theological Education</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> will take place</span> on January 28th 2023 </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">from 2-3.00pm EST (1-2pm CST). To buy the book see: </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978715332/Borderlands-of-Theological-Education</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">For the book party, please find information and registration link below:</span></p><a class="" href="https://www.diosef.org/event-registration/6384bbe4b4be63ce7ad4a92b" style="text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">https://www.diosef.org/event-registration/6384bbe4b4be63ce7ad4a92b</span></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-54746685006622222542022-09-16T12:04:00.002-04:002022-09-16T12:04:41.638-04:00<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #002552; font-family: "Crimson Text", Palatino, serif; font-size: 20pt; letter-spacing: 1pt;">Borderlands of Theological Education (October 2022)</span></p><div class="isbn-title-container" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; float: left; font-family: "Crimson Text", Palatino, serif; font-size: 14px;"><div class="isbn-subtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #555555; font-family: Oswald, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; padding-bottom: 6px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15pt; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px;"></h2></div><div class="isbn-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-family: Oswald, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt !important; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; text-transform: uppercase;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt !important; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">EDITED BY</span> JOSHUA B. DAVIS AND DEIRDRE GOOD - <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CONTRIBUTIONS BY</span> EDWIN DAVID APONTE; KELLY D. CAMPBELL; JOSHUA B. DAVIS; KATIE DAY; TIMOTHY EBERHART; JOSEPH W. H. LOUGH AND KRIS VELDHEER</h3></div></div><div class="isbn-tab-page-title" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; display: inline-block; font-family: Oswald, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; letter-spacing: 0.6pt; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-transform: uppercase;"><section class="TOP-DOTTED-SEPARATOR" style="background-origin: content-box; background-position: center bottom; background-repeat: repeat-x; box-sizing: border-box; height: 8px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 1170px; padding-bottom: 6px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></section><div class="isbn-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", Palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt !important; letter-spacing: 0.35pt !important; line-height: 1.45em !important; padding-top: 10px; text-transform: none;"><div id="isbnSummaryID" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Traditional patterns of educating and training clergy face not only crises of increasing cost and declining enrollment, but also a crisis of identity, since at present it is the academy, not the church, that shapes formation for ministry. This collection of essays outlines a history and a new vision of the church as the primary location of ministerial formation for the future of theological education.</span></p></div></div></div><p>https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978715349/Borderlands-of-Theological-Education?fbclid=IwAR1FJp321ezVnLlmjXD1n6fYmCyKfCttKVOkbeyvyBfQ5KvRa3p36UFJQfM</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDONXjyMWDc476fsgDDeTBUoPqDcp2YzLcE97Ct-QPmdUekZIoctwcmp2qwMv9W3ogpS0dzdMZCpkVK9-fPeWzMM4kSTo3tvFj6UnEBD9lPZto1SVzCMEvlLRgKdBMREY_aNASKG4ciFFUxG17brE0L5pSYNc3ImycJk_VOnn7KEeObQIjOg/s506/Borderlands%20of%20Theological%20Education%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="315" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDONXjyMWDc476fsgDDeTBUoPqDcp2YzLcE97Ct-QPmdUekZIoctwcmp2qwMv9W3ogpS0dzdMZCpkVK9-fPeWzMM4kSTo3tvFj6UnEBD9lPZto1SVzCMEvlLRgKdBMREY_aNASKG4ciFFUxG17brE0L5pSYNc3ImycJk_VOnn7KEeObQIjOg/s320/Borderlands%20of%20Theological%20Education%20cover.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-18243482695838026622022-04-22T15:18:00.002-04:002022-04-22T15:31:42.916-04:00Jesus the spirit-filled exorcist in Mark's Gospel<p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark's gospel presents Jesus first & foremost as a spirit-filled exorcist from a baptism by John in which the spirit comes into him. It is in the spirit</span> <span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">world that Jesus is first recognized. In fact, Jesus is confronted by "unclean spirits" in individuals everywhere: in Galilean synagogues (Mark 1; esp.1:39); on the margins of life (Mark 5, the Gerasene demoniac) and beyond Galilee (Mark 7, the Syrophonecian woman on behalf of her daughter). </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">And it is not just individuals: people are enthralled: ".. they kept asking one another, “What is this new teaching? With authority he commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him!” Crowds from everywhere find Jesus; to avoid being crushed he gets into a boat offshore. But "whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and shouted, “You are the Son of God!” (Mark 3). </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not surprisingly, critics accuse him of being demon-possessed: "but how can Satan cast out Satan?" Jesus responds. Rather, Jesus' self understand expands: when people pursue Jesus to the extent that they "unroof the roof" of the house where he is to obtain healing for a paralyzed friend, Jesus demonstrates an ability to forgive sins on earth as Child(son) of Humanity (2:10) right before the healing takes place. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Even his own household (family) members, when they hear these events, believe that he "is beside himself" or out of his mind.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Josephus connects spirit possession with social and political stress, as is likely to be the case in Galilee, where Mark locates Jesus' ministry during the time of Herod Antipas. (Teaching a new course on Jesus has given me a chance to re-think Mark's Christological emphases).</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpHL1TI1w1CKUZ1-qSor0vtIP2k7ZmT1cfRtA17FghbUqmKOF7egomkykFt8KHH1xrlV4vjJzeveUaE_qkXqi_BeSlJKHdw8a7rYu7EQXj_Nkn-ozOaO0s1Z-NoSFa5hbWZSLNAhh3AvPLuUJslEOLu2xauojmfwKWwTYWbk4TuakDflqeA/s1024/Chora%20Church%20XC%20healing%20arm.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="785" data-original-width="1024" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifpHL1TI1w1CKUZ1-qSor0vtIP2k7ZmT1cfRtA17FghbUqmKOF7egomkykFt8KHH1xrlV4vjJzeveUaE_qkXqi_BeSlJKHdw8a7rYu7EQXj_Nkn-ozOaO0s1Z-NoSFa5hbWZSLNAhh3AvPLuUJslEOLu2xauojmfwKWwTYWbk4TuakDflqeA/s320/Chora%20Church%20XC%20healing%20arm.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><p></p>Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-22628016670022426892021-03-12T17:26:00.001-05:002021-03-12T17:26:29.241-05:00Anacreon of Teos PMG358 <p> Anacreon: PMG 358 </p><p>William S. Annis Aoidoi.org∗ October 2010</p><p>This poem comes to us via Athenaeus (13 599C), who claims that the poem is about Sappho. Women from Lesbos had their own reputations independent of Sappho, so a little suspicion about this seems prudent. Unfortunately, the inter- pretation of line eight depends somewhat on where you stand on this question.</p><p>Meter: glyconic quatrain, 1, 2, 3 ̄ ̆ ̄ ̆ ̆ ̄ ̆ ̄; 4 ̄ ̆ ̄ ̆ ̆ ̄ ̄. ̄ ̄</p><p>σφαίρῃ δηὖτέ με πορφυρέῃ</p><p>βάλλων χρυσοκόμης Ἔρως, νήνι ποικιλοσαμβάλῳ</p><p>συμπαίζειν προκαλεῖται. </p><p>5 ἣ δ’ — ἐστὶν γὰρ ἀπ’ εὐκτίτου</p><p>Λέσβου — τὴν μὲν ἐμὴν κόμην — λευκὴ γάρ — καταμέμφεται,</p><p>πρὸς δ’ ἄλλην τινὰ χάσκει.</p><p>∗This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. To view a</p><p>copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.</p><p>1 σφαῖρα ̆ ας ἡ ball. δηὖτε = δὴ αὖτε again. πορφύρεος η ον shining; purple, dark-red. 2βάλλω here more pelt, strike (by throwing). χρυ ̄σοκόμης ου ὁ golden-haired.</p><p>3 νήν ̄ι = contracted sg.dat. of ἡ νεᾶνις girl. ποικιλοσάμβαλος ον with embroidered sandals.</p><p>4 συμ-παίζω play with + dat., often with erotic sense. προ-καλέομαι call forth, invite, summon. 5The syntax of this entire quatrain is rather parenthetical. ἐστίν i.e., ἡ. εὔκτιτος ον well-made; good to dwell in.</p><p>6 Λέσβος ἡ Lesbos. κόμη ἡ hair. This phrase is the direct object of l.7 καταμέμφεται.</p><p>7 λευκός ή όν white; bright; i.e., l.6 κόμην. κατα-μέμφομαι find fault with, blame.</p><p>8 προσ-χάσκω in tmesis, gape, stare open-mouthed at; be greedy for. ἄλλην τινά The feminine gender of ἄλλην could refer to l.6 κόμην hair, i.e., a younger man whose hair isn’t white. Or it could refer to the girl, in which case ἄλλην is another girl.</p><p>Simon Goldhill TLS Feb 12 2021 offers his own translation in a review of Anacreon of Teos: Testimonia and fragments ed Bernsdorff (OUP) $295.00</p><p>Once again, golden-haired Eros is throwing</p><p>A purple ball at me and challenges me</p><p>To go and play with</p><p>The girl with the fancy sandals.</p><p>But she—for she is from well-founded</p><p>Lesbos—my hair</p><p>It’s white— she disses,</p><p>And gapes at another. </p><p>“But what is most striking is the gap between the two stanzas. Whatever is imagined to happen between the poet and the girl, it takes place, unnarrated, in the silence between the stanzas, as we move from the fantasy of anticipation to the bitterness of the aftermath. Every reader is to fill in the gap in the erotic story. We turn suggestion into narrative, just as the poem starts with a fantasy and ends with a different story. Roland Barthes, the modern muse of desire, said that what is truly erotic is not nudity but gaps in clothing through which the body can be glimpsed. Anacreon’s poetry loves to play with such gaps, and hints, and glimpses. It is an erotic poetics of the suggestive. “ </p>Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-65508819446590783282020-09-24T16:48:00.002-04:002020-09-24T16:49:30.559-04:00"Use of Social Media" by Deirdre Good in Theologians & Philosophers using Social Media: Advice, Tips, and Testimonials ed. Thomas J. Oord (2017)<p style="text-align: left;">There is a new review of this book <a href="https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:W0DkkvTTefcJ:scholar.google.com/+%22Deirdre+Good%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,20&as_ylo=2020" target="_blank">here.</a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Use of Social Media by Deirdre Good</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Social media has changed our world. In terms of scholarship and teaching, we are limited only by what can imagine would enhance pedagogy or what we can actually bring about. I’ve used blog posts and discussions to develop course materials. I use Facebook and Twitter regularly and I blog infrequently. I’m presently co-editing a volume on theological education and I use Google chat for regular consultations with authors writing for the volume. For teaching online I presently use Moodle and Zoom. </p><p> <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I began to use the web & bible software in classroom teaching in the 80’s as an early adopter at the seminary where I taught. I was the first member of the Faculty to exploit online technology, even before the communications infrastructure was fully able to support timely delivery of course materials. One course I taught offered resources in how to teach the Bible in congregational settings. In this course, students prepare and are videotaped conducting parish Lenten programs using learner-based teaching techniques. When I began to teach online with Blackboard and then Moodle, I either made my own podcasts to accompany written materials or commissioned professional file makers to film short segments on course materials supplying course content. Teaching an Introduction to Koine Greek course online was one of the most challenging courses I’ve developed and probably not one of the most successful. In this regard, a seminary with limited technological resources is very different from a large research university. In 2010 I successfully applied for an Online Course For Theological Faculty Teaching Online from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion to adapt introductory courses for online delivery and to learn more about online delivery methods.</p><p>We used social media to promote and report on a hybrid course on Matthew’s Gospel I taught with a colleague in the Fall of 2016. With a nearby church as a community of accountability, the weekly class brought together parishioners and seminarians from all degree programs. Classes blended online discussions between the two communities as a way of deepening and expanding learning and formation. Questions from congregants often drove discussions: "Who is Jesus in Matthew?" asked a parishoner in a class on Matthew’s birth narrative. Classroom and church were a two-way street. We explored and recorded embodiment as part of the fabric of acted biblical interpretative methods and as productive of meaning. The parable of Matthew’s wheat and tares came alive in new ways as embodiment produced congeniality and connection among the younger students and the older parishioners. We understood the interconnectedness of opposites, the commonalities and differentials in seemingly distinctive destinies – and we enjoyed being together. By abandoning the value judgments implicit in the parable, we can joyfully say that the joint class itself was such an enactment. For class assignments later in the semester, students visited parishioners and taught Matthew through interpretative dialogue to parishioners as engaged participants. Students also participated in worship at the parish church using an Advent passage from Matthew. Three days later both groups reprised that experience in the seminary Chapel which involved a recorded “mannequin challenge” to embody the message of the selected passage. In these ways the class also explored and developed understandings of oral pedagogies, oral interpretative methods, and the diversity of expressiveness that oral communication allows. Altogether, these were experiences that knit a community of learners and secured an environment of shared production of knowledge and meaning. </p><p>We studied Matthew as literature, theology, and the addressing of a marginalized, emergent community, straddling an old story even as it began its own version of that story, and all in an imperial context. Our interpretative maneuvers moved between Matthew’s ancient historical and literary contexts and its analytical relevance to issues today. Conjoining the biblical studies classroom with a congregation added unaccustomed dimensions for both groups. The adventurousness of the academy was offered reality checks in translatability and relevance by the presence of a community of accountability. Parishioner study participants found themselves stretched and their understandings enhanced by classroom conversations. Studying Matthew in this way enables us to enact its past as though present and unfolding. We straddled an old story, perceived its new versions, and created pathways for ongoing exploration. </p><p>Elizabeth Drescher claimed prematurely in 2014 that social media saved General Theological Seminary (https://medium.com/the-narthex/did-social-media-just-save-general-seminary). Although the majority of the faculty including me departed from that institution within the year, her point was well taken. While we had no exceptional social media skills, we were able to use social media to inform interested parties about the evolving 2014-15 seminary controversy primarily because we believed that our issues needed to be aired in public. In addition, faculty colleagues at other institutions started a petition to support us that thousands of faculty across the world signed, whilst other colleagues and friends started a fund to support us financially when the Board accepted our (untended) resignations. Others stepped forward to help, for example in creating a website preserving information about and documents relating to events of that year (see http://www.safeseminary.net/).</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Although we left the seminary, use of social media helped to create, explain and publicize issues at stake in our particular situation that we have come to see now as part of far broader and ongoing crises in theological schools and seminary education across the country. We are considering publishing materials on crises in seminary education that will bring the most benefit to everyone who has gone or is going through particular theological school and seminary catastrophes across the country.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I am presently on the advisory committee of American Values, Religious Voices (valuesandvoices.com). “American Values Religious Voices: 100 Days. 100 Letters” is a national nonpartisan campaign that brings together scholars from a diverse range of religious traditions to articulate core American values that have grounded our nation in the past and should guide us forward at this time of transition. For the first 100 days of the new administration, we will send a one-page letter to President Trump, Vice President Pence, Cabinet Secretaries, and Members of the House and the Senate. The letters offer insight and inspiration drawn from the collective wisdom of our faith communities and their sacred texts.” Prof Andrea Weiss conceived the project. There are now over 2,000 subscribers. The campaign is on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @ValuesandVoices and will be published as a book.</p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I spend several hours each day searching for and improving online course materials even as courses are underway and this time includes use of social media. In a recent temporary position, I was able to draw on skills of reference librarians in the excellent university library that helped to educate me and expand teaching resources and my online publications. </p><p><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>If I were to recommend three things to scholars considering using social media, they would be the following:</p><p>1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Get training from your IT department, your local library, and your local Apple store to expand your awareness of online research, social media resources, and other technological possibilities. </p><p>2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Do not hesitate to ask for help and information from younger colleagues. </p><p>3.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Go regularly to conferences on technology & social media.</p><p>4.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Apply for workshops and funding to develop your technological and social media skills.</p><p> Deirdre J. Good is Theologian in Residence at Trinity Wall Street and was Academic Dean at General Theological Seminary. In 2016-7 she was Interim Associate Academic Dean at Drew Theological School. She was Professor of New Testament at General from 1986-2015, and prior to that served as the chair of the religion department at Agnes Scott College, as well as on the religious studies faculty at Valparaiso University. She is a graduate of The University of St Andrews, Cambridge University, Union Theological Seminary, and Harvard University Divinity School, where she completed her doctoral studies. She is the author of many scholarly articles and the author and co-author of numerous books, including Jesus’ Family Values, Jesus the Meek King and Mariam, the Magdalen, and the Mother. While she is an American citizen, she grew up in Kenya where her parents were missionaries. Deirdre Good blogs occasionally at notbeingasausage.blogspot.com, is an avid Facebook and Twitter user (@good_deirdre), and occasional Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Google+ user.</p><div><br /></div>Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-23238308264274477952020-04-25T16:05:00.001-04:002020-04-25T16:05:28.209-04:00Preaching Podcasts Easter 3: Luke's Mobile Hospitality<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The page for our podcasts from the Dio of Central PA is down so here's a link to Preaching Podcasts for Easter 3 on Luke's mobile hospitality.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-67488151692634920332020-01-10T16:58:00.003-05:002020-01-10T16:58:40.110-05:00Preaching, Proclaiming, Teaching, Pondering in Epiphany 2020?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
My esteemed colleagues, Dean <a href="https://aims.dioala.org/staff.html">Joshua Davis</a>, and Professor <a href="https://www.drew.edu/communications-department/2018/02/22/althea-spencer-miller/">Althea Spencer Miller</a>, have made it possible to discuss and record our <a href="https://diocesecpa.org/ssfm/ssfm-podcast-series/">Podcasts for Preachers, Pundits, Proclaimers, and Teachers </a>on <a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Epiphany/AEpi1_RCL.html">Epiphany 1 </a><a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Epiphany/AEpi3_RCL.html">& 3, </a>and <a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Epiphany/AEpi2_RCL.html">Epiphany 2,</a> 2020.<br />
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As you can probably tell, we enjoy great conversations on theological and interpretative matters. We hope you find them useful. Here's <a href="https://diocesecpa.org/ssfm/ssfm-podcast-series/">the link</a>.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-6233057544088152942019-12-09T10:53:00.000-05:002019-12-09T17:35:06.930-05:00A better translation of Luke 1:46-7 in Mary's Magnificat for December 15th Advent 3, 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Advent/AAdv3_RCL.html">Advent 3 of our 2019 Liturgical Calendar </a>makes it possible to use Mary's Magnificat (Canticle 9, p.91 of the BCP) in place of the Psalm.<br />
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Luke 1:46-47 records the opening lines of Mary's Magnificat:<br />
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Μεγαλύνει ἡ ψυχή μου τὸν κύριον,<br />
καὶ ἠγαλλίασεν τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπὶ τῷ θεῷ τῷ σωτῆρί μου,<br />
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My soul <u>magnifies</u> the Lord,<br />
and my spirit <u>rejoiced</u> in God my savior.<br />
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My point is simple: these parallel lines of Hebrew poetry translated into Greek open the Song of Praise by nevertheless using two distinct verbs and two different tenses in the verbs "magnifies" and "rejoiced." The first is in the present tense, conveying Mary's praise of God on the basis of Gabriel's information, whilst the second, in a past (aorist) tense, causes listeners to pause because it does not simply repeat the first line.<br />
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When we pause to take in a difference in the second line, what do we hear? A beam of light into the past. Mary is looking back to her experiences of God in the past on the basis of her present experience. These experiences are shared with Israelite tradition; they are not hers alone. We can imagine that she has re-membered God's saving acts, invoking for example, Miriam's poetic Song of the Sea in Exodus 15, the Shir Ha-Shirim celebrating God's saving act in delivering Israelites from the Egyptians. As God saved Israelite slaves in a mighty act of deliverance, so God now looks with favor on God's lowly servant. Hannah's song of deliverance (I Sam 2:1-10) is likely also to be in Mary's mind:<br />
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My heart exults in the Lord,<br />
and my strength is exalted in my God.<br />
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And Mary is also using the kind of liturgical language found in Habbakuk 3:18:<br />
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Yet I will rejoice in the Lord;<br />
I will exult in the God of my salvation.<br />
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Mary articulates a prophetic voice that sees God's mighty acts in the present and the past because she is in fact a prophet.<br />
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By keeping the present tense of both verbs in translating Luke 1:46-7, the NRSV translation has missed Mary's prophetic insight juxtaposing God's present and past actions in the opening lines of the Magnificat.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-52663465051746837712019-10-30T10:16:00.002-04:002019-10-30T10:16:45.733-04:00Preaching Podcasts on Sundays in November and Advent 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We've been busy.<br />
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Prof <a href="https://www.drew.edu/communications-department/2018/02/22/althea-spencer-miller/">Althea Spencer-Miller</a> of Drew University Theological School and Dean Joshua Davis, Dean of the <a href="https://aims.dioala.org/staff.html">Alabama Integrative Ministry School</a>, and I have been creating a podcast series: <a href="https://diocesecpa.org/ssfm/ssfm-podcast-series/">Preaching Podcasts</a> for Pundits and Public Proclaimers with the support and promotion of the <a href="https://diocesecpa.org/ssfm/">Bishop T Stevenson School of Ministry in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania.</a><br />
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We have just finished Sundays in November and Advent 2019 and are now embarking on Christmas Day, Christmas 1 & 2, and Epiphany 2020. <br />
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Our <b><a href="https://diocesecpa.org/ssfm/ssfm-podcast-series/">Podcasts</a> for Preachers, Pundits, Parishioners, and Public Proclaimers </b>takes Lectionary readings as a starting point to explain the Bible in simpler, less complex ways than formal seminary or divinity school education. Podcasts are now recognized as a different but powerful form of learning. Episodes provide listeners with alternative and memorable ways to take in and understand complex ideas.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-24293419248617821592019-10-06T16:30:00.001-04:002019-10-06T17:19:56.254-04:00Preparing to go on a Pilgrimage A<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
(Bruce Feiler) Six stages characterize every pilgrimage:<br />
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<li>The Call: The opening clarion of any spiritual journey. Often in the form of a feeling or some vague yearning, that summons expresses a fundamental human desire: finding meaning in an overscheduled world somehow requires leaving behind our daily obligations. Sameness is the enemy of spirituality.</li>
<li>The Separation: Pilgrimage, by its very nature, undoes certainty. It rejects the safe and familiar. It asserts that one is freer when one frees oneself from daily obligations of family, work, and community, but also the obligations of science, reason, and technology.</li>
<li>The Journey: The backbone of a sacred journey is the pain of the journey itself. In India, pilgrims approach the holy sites barefoot. In Iraq, they flagellate themselves. In Tibet, the more difficult the trip the most merit the pilgrim acquires. In almost every place, the travelers develop blisters, hunger, and diarrhea. This personal sacrifice enhances the experience; it also elevates the sense of community one develops along the way.</li>
<li>The Contemplation: Some pilgrimages go the direct route, right to the center of the holy of holies, directly to the heart of the matter. Others take a more indirect route, circling around the outside of the sacred place, transforming the physical journey into a spiritual path of contemplation.</li>
<li>The Encounter: After all the toil and trouble, after all the sunburn and swelling, after all the anticipation and expectation comes the approach, the sighting. The encounter is the climax of the journey, the moment when the traveler attempts to slide through a thin membrane in the universe and return to the Garden of Origin, where humans lived in concert with the Creator.</li>
<li>The Completion and Return: At the culmination of the journey, the pilgrim returns home only to discover that meaning they sought lies in the familiar of one's own world.</li>
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What did I really see this day?<br />
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"It is a startling truth that how you see and what you see determines how and who you will be…. Ask yourself: What way do I behold the world? Through this question you will discover your specific pattern of seeing."<br />
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He then describes and comments on the implications of various styles of vision. Here is a short list, which he elaborates on in his book:<br />
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• To the fearful eye, all is threatening;<br />
• To the greedy eye, everything can be possessed…HAVING has become the enemy of being;<br />
• To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames;<br />
• To the resentful eye, everything is begrudged;<br />
• To the indifferent eye, nothing calls or awakens…indifference is necessary for power;<br />
• To the inferior eye, everyone is greater;<br />
• To the loving eye, everything is real.<br />
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“The loving eye sees through and beyond image and effects the deepest change. Vision is central to your presence and creativity. To recognize how you see things can bring you self-knowledge and enable you to glimpse the wonderful treasures your life secretly holds.”<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-37002218859266237322019-05-31T18:06:00.000-04:002019-05-31T18:06:11.585-04:00Podcast Interview with Prof Katie Day hosted by Prof James McGrath<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Prof James McGrath of Butler University was kind enough to invite Prof Katie Day and myself to join him in a recent <a href="https://anchor.fm/religionprof/episodes/Episode-39-with-Katie-Day-and-Deirdre-Good-e43de2?fbclid=IwAR2j9Frz0Kw-peUFD8dKgQYzl22L79WF8b6Vp0nnrOKAOD7YjTN-TeGZAhE">podcast</a> on our co-edited book, <b>Courage Beyond Fear: Re-Formation in Theological Education </b>(2019: Pickwick Publications: Wipf and Stock, Oregon). I enjoyed our three-way conversation immensely, particularly since we ventured into the role of religion and faith in public discourse; directions of theological education; crises, vulnerability, and community; models of leadership; governance and mission.<br />
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<b>Courage Beyond Fear</b> is a collection of sermons and addresses from theologians and ministers who taught and studied at seminaries that underwent wrenching change, often when corporate-style governance was vaunted over theological education, spiritual insight, and community. This book, edited by Katie Day and Deirdre Good, is the first to record stories of seminary and theological school crises from an inside perspective of students and faculty living through those changes. “Drawing on scripture, history and faith, these uncompromising voices set out questions of forgiveness, vision, and faithfulness which are essential reading for anyone dealing with institutional or personal loss,” Rebecca Lyman, Professor Emerita of History, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, wrote in her review on Amazon.</div>
Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-16062960754598127142019-05-20T11:46:00.000-04:002019-05-20T11:46:51.447-04:00"The Jews" in John's Gospel: Resources B<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<u>Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel.</u> Eds. Reimund Bieringer, Didier Pollefeyt and Frederique Vandecasteele-Vanneuville. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001. xiii +322 pp. $.00 (paper).<br />
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<u>Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel</u> originated from a research program at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) to study the alleged anti-Judaism of the Gospel of John. At the research seminar in Leuven on Jan 17-18, 2000, 24 leading scholars in the fields of Johannine exegesis and Jewish-Christian dialogue met and some of the contributors rewrote their essays for the present volume. The complete set of essays from the seminar has already been published. This volume is the definitive collection on a central problem in the New Testament.<br />
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In the first essay "Wrestling with Johannine Anti-Judaism: A Hermeneutical Framework for the Analysis of the Current Debate" the editors structure the debate in the volume on five questions:<br />
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A) Is the Gospel of John anti-Jewish?<br />
B)Who are "the Jews" in John?<br />
C) How do we have to understand the presumed conflict between the Johannine community and "the Jews"?<br />
D) Is John supersessionist?<br />
E) What is the possible contribution of hermeneutics to reading John?<br />
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In regard to A), no one denies that anti-Judaism has found its way into the interpretation of John but did it originate at the level of the interpreter, the level of the text, or the level of the author? Those agreeing that John depicts the relationship between Jesus and "the Jews" in a negative way (B) sometimes limit, relativize, and even deny the anti-Judaism implied in it. Important here is how to understand John's frequent negative use of the term "the Jews." Jewish authorities? First-century Jews? Only those who do not believe in Jesus? All Jews of faith convictions? As part of an inner-Jewish conflict? C) John 9:22 is now understood as referring only to a local conflict between the Johannine community and their Jewish neighbors rather than as evidence of the full separation of Judaism and Christianity into separate religions. No longer is the entire Jewish religion seen as excommunicating all of Christianity by a formal decree and thus Judaism cannot be blamed for the rupture between Judaism and Christianity. Thus, explanations excusing John's comments on Jews and Judaism as a response to Jewish exclusion and hence safeguarding the gospel's status as an authoritative text are inadequate.<br />
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In summary: - anti-Judaism in the fourth gospel reaches to the core of the Christian message and is intrinsically oppressive rather than revelatory. They are not later redactions of the words of Jesus unacceptable from a Christian point of view. Nor can one excise them to save the healthy core of the message. However the hermeneutical solution proposed (E) is that scriptures themselves are not the only place or the end of divine revelation. The author of John was a sinful human being. Yet the gospel cannot be reduced to its anti-Jewish elements. It projects an alternative world of all-inclusive love and life that transcends its anti-Judaism and this world of the text rather than the world of the author is a witness to divine revelation.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-24236459999927845182019-05-13T12:50:00.004-04:002019-05-20T11:46:34.636-04:00"The Jews" in John's Gospel: Resources A<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Essential reading on this topic is an <a href="https://www.ancientjewreview.com/articles/2018/2/24/reflections-on-my-journey-with-john-a-retrospective-from-adele-reinhartz">article</a> by Prof Adele Reinhartz, "Reflections on my journey with John, A Retrospective from Adele Reinhartz," in <u>Ancient Jew Review</u>, April 11, 2018. In she argues that<br />
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"John’s well-documented anti-Judaism is not peripheral but central to the Gospel’s theology and rhetorical program. While I do not for a moment believe that John’s author(s) would have foreseen or applauded the history of Christian anti-Judaism, there is no doubt that they intended to foster suspicion of, distancing from, and even hatred of the <i>ioudaioi</i>. To be sure, John’s <i>ioudaioi</i> are not an ethnic or religious category but a rhetorical one."<br />
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"Jesus and the first disciples were ethnically <i>ioudaioi</i>, but not theologically so – this label is never used for the disciples and only once for Jesus (John 4:9). Yet the fact that there existed, and continued to exist, real people who fit that label – whether we call them Jews or Judeans or by some other name – and who, by and large, did not go along with the Gospel’s views about God, Jesus, and humankind, means that John’s Gospel could be, and was, used to build a wall between Christ-confessors and <i>ioudaioi</i> that had real consequences for real Jews."<br />
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Her new <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978701175/Cast-Out-of-the-Covenant-Jews-and-Anti-Judaism-in-the-Gospel-of-John#">book</a> on this topic will be published this July:<br />
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<b>Cast Out of the Covenant</b><br />
<b>Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John</b><br />
ADELE REINHARTZ<br />
The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the Gospel’s exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8:44) who persecuted Christ and his followers?<br />
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One widespread solution to this problem is the so-called “expulsion hypothesis.” According to this view, the Fourth Gospel was addressed to a Jewish group of believers in Christ that had been expelled from the synagogue due to their faith. The anti-Jewish elements express their natural resentment of how they had been treated; the Jewish elements of the Gospel, on the other hand, reflect the Jewishness of this group and also soften the force of the Gospel’s anti-Jewish comments.<br />
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In Cast out of the Covenant, Adele Reinhartz presents a detailed critique of the expulsion hypothesis on literary and historical grounds. She argues that, far from softening the Gospel’s anti-Jewishness, the Gospel’s Jewish elements in fact contribute to it. Focusing on the Gospel’s persuasive language and intentions, Reinhartz shows that the Gospel’s anti-Jewishness is evident not only in the Gospel’s hostile comments about the Jews but also in its appropriation of Torah, Temple, and Covenant that were so central to first-century Jewish identity. Through its skillful use of rhetoric, the Gospel attempts to convince its audience that God’s favor had turned away from the Jews to the Gentiles; that there is a deep rift between the synagogue and those who confess Christ as Messiah; and that, in the Gospel’s view, this rift was initiated in Jesus’ own lifetime. The Fourth Gospel, Reinhartz argues, appropriates Jewishness at the same time as it repudiates Jews. In doing so, it also promotes a “parting of the ways” between those who believe that Jesus is the messiah, the Son of God, and those who do not, that is, the Jews. This rhetorical program, she suggests, may have been used to promote outreach or even an organized mission to the Gentiles, following in the footsteps of Paul and his mid-first-century contemporaries.<br />
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Lexington Books / Fortress Academic<br />
Pages: 248 • Trim: 6 1/4 x 9 3/8<br />
978-1-9787-0117-5 • Hardback • July 2018 • $95.00 • (£65.00)<br />
978-1-9787-0118-2 • eBook • July 2018 • $90.00 • (£60.00)<br />
Subjects: Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, Religion / Christian Theology / General, Religion / Christianity / History<br />
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Prof Joel Marcus has some very useful things to say about John's use of "the Jews" in the Gospel of John in his farewell <a href="https://youtu.be/a-40svowdYE">lecture</a> "Thoughts on the Parting of the Ways Between Judaism and Christianity" given this Spring 2019 at Duke University.<br />
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These thoughts are also related to a collection of essays: <u>The Ways That Often Parted: Essays in Honor of Joel Marcus</u>, Eds. Lori Baron, Jill Hicks-Keeton, and Matthew Theissen (SBL Press 2018) offering not "one coherent narrative," but "snapshots of how Jews and Christians (variously defined)" interacted, conflicted and collaborated in first and second century literature. The argument of these essays is that "Christianity's eventual distinction from Judaism was messy and multiform," occurring in different places at different times, in different ways and with different resources, histories, theologies and politics.<br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-37562223886083031272019-03-18T12:40:00.003-04:002019-03-18T12:40:59.725-04:00Effective Pauses in Teaching? Silence in the classroom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Pauses and silence in teaching to sustain reflective moments and thoughtful exchanges have always been part of my teaching in seminaries. Such moments seem to happen as a result of establishing respect for questions and dialogue. They won't happen if the class is not a safe space. When they happen is hard to predict.<br />
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A recent <a href="https://barkleypd.com/blog/teacher-pause-and-student-thinking/">article </a>by Steve Barclay, Education Consultant, makes the point that a pause after asking a question in the classroom before inviting students to respond seems to encourage reflection and deeper thought. A three second pause allows students to gather thoughts into speech. A five second pause after a response:<br />
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"allows the teacher to communicate that the student’s answer is important and she is taking time to consider it. Frequently during this pause a student may add to or change an answer now that he has heard it."<br />
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Research cited in the article indicates that:<br />
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<li>Length of student responses increased 300%-500%</li>
<li>More inferences were supported by evidence</li>
<li>Incidences of speculative thinking increased</li>
<li>Number of questions asked and experiments proposed by students increased</li>
<li>Students to student exchanges increased</li>
<li>Failure of students to respond decreased</li>
<li>Disciplinary moves decreased as engagement increased</li>
<li>Variety of students participating voluntarily increased as did the number of unsolicited responses</li>
<li>Student confidence, as measured by fewer inflected responses, increased</li>
<li>Achievement improved on written measures of cognitive complexity</li>
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Charley Wesley's 2013 <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/Sanctioning-Silence-in-the/141369">article</a> in the CHE commends the sanctioning of silence in classrooms by pointing out its connotations:</div>
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"Silence in teaching has multiple meanings. It is both an opportunity for thought and a force that can bring the classroom to a grinding halt. It is a complex and interesting phenomenon that, properly managed, can enrich our classrooms."</div>
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This is exactly the same point made by Jane Brox in her recent <a href="https://janebrox.com/silence/">book </a><u>Silence</u>: oppressive in once context (a prison) and liberating in others (a monastery).</div>
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Wesley observes that acknowledging and working through silence in classrooms at the beginning of a semester "is a strategy that helps to normalize its discomforting and sometimes stifling presence."</div>
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-33667490548877822672019-03-01T11:30:00.001-05:002019-03-07T15:28:13.761-05:00Spring class in Belfast Maine starting March 28th The Miriamic Procession <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Through examining some selected literary excerpts, this course will explore the evolution of Miriam/Mary/Maryam from ordinary woman to “chosen…above all women of creation.” The Miriamic tradition or procession is both auditory and visual. The sound starts with an unnamed sister raising a brother and moves to the glorious song of Miriam who sings the “Song of the Sea,” celebrating Israel’s deliverance from the powerful Egyptians with music and dance. Some scholars have suggested that Miriam was connected to a philosopher role, and the notion that she communicated with God is advanced through other texts from the Hebrew Bible.</div>
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The Miriamic procession continues in the New Testament from Mary, mother in the birth stories, through women disciples in Jesus’ ministry, to the women, especially Mary Magdalen at the empty tomb and at the resurrection. In the Ethiopian Christian Canon, the Weddase Mariam, consisting of seven prayers, one for each day of the week, is appended to the Psalter, and thus has almost canonical status.</div>
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Mary, the mother of Jesus, holds a singular exalted place in the Islam liturgy as well, as the only woman named in the Qu’ran, which refers to her seventy times, more often than in the New Testament, and especially identifies her as the greatest of all women.</div>
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-2932090881857768622019-02-27T14:40:00.002-05:002019-02-27T14:40:18.894-05:00March 7 & 14 How to Read the Bible 5-6pm online sessions through the Diocese of Maine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks to the Episcopal Diocese of Maine, I am offering two online workshops on <b>How to Read the Bible,</b> to interested participants on March 7 & 14th from 5-6pm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To participate in the discussions, you must have a bible easily available to you. I will refer to it regularly and will encourage you to do so too. I will be specifically referring to The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Fifth Edition (2018). I recommend you acquire an annotated NRSV bible, not necessarily this one. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not expect you to own these books but I want to alert you that I will be referring to David Bentley Hart’s <b>The New Testament: A Translation</b> (2018) and the <b>Jewish Annotated New Testament Second Edition</b> (2017) eds. Amy Jill Levine and Marc Brettler. Please email me for details: deirdregood@mac.com</span></div>
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-29757845789678441352019-02-09T11:56:00.003-05:002019-02-09T11:56:42.155-05:00Lenten Adult Formation Series at Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington Massachusetts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It has never been more important for us as followers of Jesus to understand our fundamental common heritage with Judaism, where and when we parted ways, and how we can live into our faith while honoring and recognizing our Jewish kindred.</div>
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This Lent we welcome three extraordinary teachers and guests to Redeemer:</div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rabbi Howard Jaffe from Temple Isaiah on <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sunday March 17</strong> </li>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Canon Dr. Deirdre Good is a scholar, author and lay preacher in the Diocese of Maine. <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />She will preach on <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 10</strong> and lead Adult Forum on <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sundays March 10, 24 <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />and April 7.</strong></li>
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-13537282850596777282019-02-01T17:11:00.000-05:002019-02-01T17:11:41.130-05:00Spring Semester Stevenson School for Ministry Online Courses <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-35049620810801132272019-01-22T17:21:00.002-05:002019-01-22T17:21:39.916-05:00Enneads, Plotinus ed. Lloyd Gerson (CUP 2019)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: #f7f5f0; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "Plantin W01", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">But this edition of </span><em style="background-color: #f7f5f0; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "Plantin W01", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The Enneads</em><span style="background-color: #f7f5f0; color: #1e1e1e; font-family: "Plantin W01", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;"> comes as close to establishing an authoritative Plotinian idiom in English as we could reasonably hope. " David Bentley Hart's <a href="https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/mind-over-matter">review</a> of a new edition by Lloyd Gerson.</span><br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-29713659348796308602018-12-25T17:12:00.000-05:002018-12-25T17:13:47.203-05:00Choices and the Incarnation: Christmas 2018<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;">Once a month, I volunteer at our local food pantry. For about two hours, 80 or more people stream through seven tables of foodstuffs to help feed their families for a month. In summer, we offer fresh vegetables. Before the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, local supermarkets and national food distribution systems offer seasonal food including turkeys, hams, and occasional outliers, most recently 5 pound bags of white flour from Kansas. A volunteer accompanies each client through the room, pointing out options, packing seasonal offerings and their other selections in large heavy boxes, and helping them to their transportation. Everyone assisting is a volunteer, and the system is streamlined to make the best use of everyone’s time while giving recipients what choice is possible.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;">Last week, in the last distribution before Christmas, I tried to help a newcomer select food items. This person bent over each table, perhaps to see better, picked up and examined every single package, can, or food item carefully before deciding about it. All the volunteers tried one way and another to move the person along faster with no success. Seemingly oblivious to our increasing frustration, this person proceeded along at their own pace, causing other clients behind to stop and wait.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;">Was this deliberation mere pickiness? Genuine food sensitivities? Prudence and concern not to clutter life with unneeded items? Care that others not be deprived? Or was it simply one place, in a severely limited living situation that must offer very few options, where the act of choice could be exercised?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;" /><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-size-adjust: auto;">In our local well-stocked supermarket, no-one would bat an eyelid if we spent several hours scrutinizing every single item by proceeding slowly up and down each aisle. Indeed, staff are there to facilitate our choices, and they regularly inquire at the checkout if we have found everything we sought. Freedom of choice is held out as a virtue of our commerce and our lives. Freedom of choice is a bedrock this country was founded on. In every society, punishment is imposed by circumscribing personal freedom, with capital punishment being the complete loss of freedom.</span></span><br />
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Deirdrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02106311465508277283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21346696.post-77531092292013824512018-04-02T09:48:00.002-04:002018-04-02T09:48:43.554-04:00Elements not Stages of Grief from the NY Review of Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://www.nybooks.com/contributors/jessica-weisberg/" style="color: #990101; text-decoration-line: none;">Jessica Weisberg</a></h3>
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross later applied the same five stages she identified in the process of dying—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—to the process of grieving. As with dying, she never meant to imply that grief was contained to just five feelings, or that the stages were linear, like levels in a Nintendo game. “They were never meant to tuck messy emotions into neat packages…. Our grief is as individual as our lives,” she wrote in <em>On Grief and Grieving</em>. Kübler-Ross found it laughable how some doctors had the gall to hold an essential organ in their hand but had no capacity for ambiguity.</div>
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