ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for March 16, 2025
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Dear Ones -
The long-anticipated time with Nadia Bolz-Weber is this weekend. For details see the Ordinary Life website. We will have a full room on Saturday so come early.
Just to alert those of you who plan to attend the Saturday event in person: if you want a book signed - Blue Willow Bookstore will have some of her books there - please come early. Nadia has requested that though she loves to visit with people, she doesn’t have energy for that after events. She will also be preaching both services at St. Paul’s on Sunday and she and I will have a dialogue during the Ordinary Life time that day.
I called the teaching I offered in Ordinary Life this week -
Being Enlightened About Enlightenment
I can fall into the belief that if everyone saw things like I do, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in today. Of course, others who differ from me believe the same thing. So, why don’t we all see alike? Answer: Our biases. Seeing clearly is important because our world is drifting more and more into authoritarianism. Jesus did his teachings in the midst of an authoritarian world. Jesus’ teachings are not about our being better people but, rather, they are to help us see something so new, so against what we have always heard, that we cannot rely on our older images of what is and what is not.
That’s a brief summary. The audio/video versions of the talk has some differences from the text I spoke from. You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and links to the audio and video version of the talk using the links below.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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