tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736097.post733183332416122287..comments2023-10-24T07:41:34.469-05:00Comments on Surprised by Joy: Your are part of something biggerannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15433802638860190900noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6736097.post-42748294210657038202008-11-29T21:22:00.000-06:002008-11-29T21:22:00.000-06:00Good post Ann. As always you are very insightful. ...Good post Ann. As always you are very insightful. To bad all social bodies, including the Church/ecclesia/collect/those called out must be organized in some form or fashion and that means polity - which means positions and then, in turn, power. Allegorically, this might be likened to 'body posture'. Unfortunately, all 'bodies' physical and social have histories which is sometimes seen and other times unseen. Honestly adressing these individual, institutional and corporate histories is a problem we all must deal with in this lively experiment called 21st century life. Two world wars, racisim, sexism and colonial Christianity are things that must be adressed in the body. Systemic and historic body disfunctions and malfunctions like these are things we must take seriously. Not to mention we have to have a starting point for communicating and dealing with such things -- which unfortunately means language and hermenutics or in the English-non-theology speak: interpretation. <BR/><BR/>I won't even start about my theology of the body/bread/blood on Sundays now or rallying around a certain bishop in the body or rallying around a certain corporate body linguistic statement (creed) as a means to achieving eschatological body unity/harmony. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, again good thoughts as always. Hope you and those at Quail Springs are well in OKC. <BR/><BR/>G-d bless,<BR/>GabeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com