ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary for January 19, 2020
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Dear Folks -
This week in Ordinary Life Holly Hudley and I co-taught. We called the talk -
Facing Spiritual Schizophrenia: How To Be Upset and Hopeful in Today’s World
We began with a statement from the Reclaiming Jesus Document about the state of the times in which we are living. I revisited the point I made last week about how we need both whole persons and a coherent social order going forward. Whole persons cannot be nurtured in the context of social chaos and a coherent social order cannot be constructed by dysfunctional individuals. We need these two things to construct a new story about who we are and how we are to live. We talked about insights we have gained from both reading the book and seeing the movie “Just Mercy.” Affirmations are made by both religious groups and governments that proclaim we are one and that we are equal. But, the facts demonstrate otherwise. Holly talked about her understanding of embedded autonomy and I spoke of my growing awareness of the influence of “white American male folk religion” on all of our systems of thinking.
That is a summary of what we offered this week in Ordinary Life. As is often the case, I think the audio version is better than the text from which I spoke.
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If you are reading this, I want you to know how grateful I am for and to you.
Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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