ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for January 5, 2025
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Dear Ones -
I called the teaching I offered this week in Ordinary Life -
The Simple Truth Isn’t So Simple
After a brief introduction reminding us what the “mission and vision” of Ordinary Life is, we begin our journey through the Jesus narratives; a journey I’m calling “Walking the Wayless Way.”
First we have to deal with the fact that there are no sources that give us the “unvarnished truth” about Jesus because the “varnish of faith in Jesus” covers everything. Further, the contexts, both then and now, complicate our understandings and our views.
The gospel narratives, like Jesus himself, are very “political.” “Tell me how you think and act politically and I will tell you in which God you believe.” (That’s a line from a very important book of theology by Dorothee Solelle.)
How do we, in our current cultural context, learn to “think critically and live faithfully”? We are called to be Christmas Christians in a world that still descends into darkness. But, the darkness does not have the final word - unless we let it. Choosing to walk “the wayless way” is choosing to walk a way that is contrary to our culture but it is a way to spiritual freedom, light, and life
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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