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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Alan goes to church Alan Roxburgh writes this and I think it is helpful. "The speaker was a Black African refugee from Burundi. He is part of our community, a preacher whose name is Joseph. His children are still in Africa and his wife died just a few months ago. He began with stories of reconciliation and justice following the terrible killings in Africa. Then, he suddenly shifted from story to concepts. He began to give us theological dictionary definitions of shalom. I sat there stunned! Here was an African in North America no more than eighteen months and already he was into a deeply modern, Western imagination – giving us the standard textbook definitions of shalom (which are just so far from the point its not funny). Then he went to talk about two types of conflict – inner and outer. I was now getting really discouraged because I knew what would come next. There is the inner conflict that the individual has with him/herself; there is the conflict we have with others and the former causes the later. Once this duality is established and implicitly rooted in the subjective individual, then the solution is not far away – a personal relationship with Jesus (don’t get me wrong, I believe a relationship with Jesus is a really big thing). I was stunned by what this beautiful African man, now in North America, was doing. He was already deeply embedded in a modern, Western imagination of abstractions and subjective individualism wherein the only way the Gospel gets applied is personal relationship. Surely, I thought, this cannot explain what happened between the Tutsi and Hutus in Africa? Surely, he has something more to bring us than our deadening categories? But he didn’t! " link for the whole story
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Jimmy Doyle is a dad, husband,
teacher, friend, and other things. Currently he's just trying to figure out what it means to follow Christ and be in community with others. He enjoys having conversations with fellow pilgrims on the journey.
Stephen Zedler has a wife and three kids who he loves very much. He has been called by God to study and teach history, particularly U.S.
history. He also believes that God has called him to reform the way children are educated in America.