ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary for January 5, 2020
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Dear Folks -
For those of you in the Houston area -
An eight week study/discussion group begins, Tuesday, January 7th, at 6:30 on the Reclaiming Jesus declaration. This will be led by St. Paul’s member Diane Schenke. You can read the document by clicking here.
If it is at all possible for you to do so, I highly recommend attending this. I intend to. I would like to see you there. The class will meet in room 312 in the sanctuary building.
As for this week’s talk, I called it “The Ongoing Quest for a Theology of Rightness.”
I chose this first Sunday of 2020 to do a bit of review of the past two years and, then, some anticipations of things to come. One of the things I did was share Ilia Delio’s summary of history from the Big Bang until now. Then I talked about my understanding of how humanly constructed religion came to create the concepts of “cosmological dualism” and “individual salvation.” These were not always part of human thinking and they came into existence for a good reason. But, because of evolutionary cosmology, this story of “how things are” has served its purpose and a new story is needed. In short, this universe is not a place where evolution happens, it is the evolution happening. This story must be born in us. Charles Dickens’ “The Christmas Carol” is a good illustration of transformation. Are we willing to be transformed? Are we willing to “get it” that life is not about us but, rather, we are about life?
That is a very brief summary of the talk I 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.
You can read or download the text from which I spoke, view the presentation slides, or listen to the audio of the talk using the links below.
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
In order to read or download the text of the talk, click here.
In order to view or download the presentation slides, click here.
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