Serene Jones Call It Grace Finding Meaning In A Fractured World
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Call It Grace
"Theology is a place and a story. Theology is the place and story you think of when you ask yourself about the meaning of your life, of the world, and the possibility of God." So begins Serene Jones's epic work of raw truth, fierce love, and spiritual teaching as muscular as the fractured soul of this century demands. From her abiding Oklahoma roots to her historic leadership of a legendary New York seminary, her story illuminates the deep fault lines of this age--and points beyond them. With a voice that is at once frank and poetic, humble and prophetic, intimate and practical, Jones makes complex teachings around hatred, forgiveness, mercy, justice, death, sin, and grace understandable and immediately applicable for modern people. Excavating the wisdom of great theological voices--Soren Kierkegaard, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Calvin, James Baldwin, James Cone, Luce Irigaray, Saint Teresa of Avila--she brings them to life with an intimacy and vividness that illumines our lives and our culture now. At the same time, and with great beauty, Call It Grace reveals Serene Jones as a towering voice of a new, and urgently necessary, public theology for this century.
Tangible Grace
Sadly, many religious leaders either are unaware of the violence that many teenagers experience in their dating relationships or religious leaders are in denial about the issue. Evelyn L. Parker challenges such leaders and their congregations to pay attention. In Tangible Grace, Parker offers a theological reflection on the experience of teen dating violence and presents ministerial practices to help intervene. In a theological examination of teen dating violence, Parker offers the concept of tangible grace as God's gracious, material gift of the touchable, physiological body. She also examines the spiritual, emotional, and physical torment that intimate violence brings upon teens' bodily, tangible grace. Using a curated collection of best, Tangible Grace presents approaches to prevent and intervene in teen dating violence. Parker focuses on various aspects of the relationships that religious leaders can foster with teens in the context of their communities and wholesome practices that leaders can cultivate. In particular, the book explores ways that religious leaders can help prevent and intervene in teen dating violence through teaching, preaching and sacred rhetoric, liturgy and worship, pastoral care, and advocacy. Tangible Grace offers a teaching tool for scholars in practical theology to help equip well-prepared practitioners in their disciplines. The book also is a timely resource for clergy and laypersons in youth ministry, who are ready to examine their ministerial practices through a lens of teen dating violence intervention.
Walking on Water
Author: Robert P. Vande Kappelle
language: en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date: 2020-02-03
How did Jesus do it? we wonder. How did he walk on water? To which we can imagine Jesus responding, "O ye of literal faith. Walk with me on the waters of life; explore with me the depths of reality." Walking on water is not, as one might think, about staying on the surface of things, but rather about going deep into the ordinary aspects of our lives and finding gold. It is not about exotic miracles or blind faith, but about "living into a new way of thinking." Most of us experience a continual flow of ideas, images, and feelings, clinging to these as if they were us. They are us, but not our True Self. They represent the atomized self, our small imperial ego. While this egocentric False Self is necessary, its role is temporary, a warm-up rather than the adventure itself. To ascertain our True Self, we must lose the false images that no longer serve us, images of God that are insufficient and images of ourselves that are similarly inadequate. Bringing to life tales about labyrinths and quests for the Grail, Walking on Water encourages us to go with Jesus into death and resurrection, encountering the universal Christ there, the True Self that gives all humans final meaning and definition. Such living "saves" us from our smaller and untrue selves, transforms our consciousness, and transports us from limited first-half-of-life living and thinking into second-half-of-life possibilities. The dynamic approach to spirituality described in this book--a transformational journey nourished by myth, metaphor, and mystery--will promote the wisdom, compassion, maturity, and connectedness we all need and desire.