4.4 The portal and the embassy
James is using a series of images to demonstrate that Church life involves undergoing a huge shift in perspective. Sometimes travel to a foreign country can give us an entirely new perspective on our culture. And sometimes having a foreign guest in our house can allow us to see ourselves through their…[Read more]

4.3 The restaurant and the halfway house
In the next few sessions, James is going to offer us a few images of Church not as something we can grasp onto, but as a sign of our being held onto and drawn into more healthy and productive patterns of life. One image he is going to use is that of a Really Classy Restaurant. Restaurant experiences can be…[Read more]

4.2 The Our Father
This session includes a line by line reading of the Our Father.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Our Father
Please share the version of the Our Father that you use. What is your favorite verse from the Our Father?…[Read more]

4.1 The working of desire
Welcome to Part Four, Unexpected insiders. At this point in our journey we are discovering new dimensions of how we are insiders within a great shift.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Remembering…[Read more]

3.10 Reading for mercy
When Jesus tells the Pharisees “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice’”, he is giving a reading lesson: “Go and sit under this word, and allow it to become the interpretative key to your approach to your fellow human beings.”
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content…[Read more]

3.10 Reading for mercy
When Jesus tells the Pharisees “Go and learn what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice’”, he is giving a reading lesson: “Go and sit under this word, and allow it to become the interpretative key to your approach to your fellow human beings.”
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content…[Read more]

3.8 Some results of the anthropological earthquake
In this session we discuss the implications of Peter’s discovery that he is to call no one unclean, that for God there are no outsiders.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Heaven and h…[Read more]

3.8 Some results of the anthropological earthquake
In this session we discuss the implications of Peter’s discovery that he is to call no one unclean, that for God there are no outsiders.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Heaven and h…[Read more]

3.7 What might a new unity look like
In this session we hear about Peter’s vision in which God insists he eat unclean things. As Peter lives with the consequences of this vision, he discovers that for God, no one is considered unclean.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the p…[Read more]

3.6 Induction into a people
In this session we will see how Atonement and the birth of a new people are two sides of the same thing.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Walk down memory lane
Discuss The Procession by John August…[Read more]

3.5 Undergoing Atonement: Venezuelans
In this module we are going to see how we often need someone to be bad to know we are good.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Schadenfreude
Answer the following questions:

Have you ever…[Read more]

3.4 Undergoing Atonement: Gibeonites
As part of our imaginative exercise about Atonement, in this session we are going to imagine ourselves in a difficult political situation. We’ll be part of a small tribe that feels they have been wronged by King David.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or i…[Read more]

3.4 Undergoing Atonement: Gibeonites
As part of our imaginative exercise about Atonement, in this session we are going to imagine ourselves in a difficult political situation. We’ll be part of a small tribe that feels they have been wronged by King David.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or i…[Read more]

3.3 Undergoing Atonement: Ancient Hebrews
In the next three modules we will be directly examining what is known as Atonement. In this module, we will discuss the different ideas and experiences of Atonement the participants bring with them.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the…[Read more]

3.2 The gift of faith
One of the consequences of receiving the gift of faith is a highly increased awareness of our not being truth-tellers and at the same time learning to be relaxed about it.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your…[Read more]

3.2 The gift of faith
One of the consequences of receiving the gift of faith is a highly increased awareness of our not being truth-tellers and at the same time learning to be relaxed about it.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your…[Read more]

3.1 The emergence of the Other other
Welcome to Part Three of the course. In this session we begin an exploration of what is meant by the word faith.

Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Exploring faith

When you were blindfolded to…[Read more]

2.6 God’s utter aliveness
In this session we explore the experience of the Exiles returning from Babylon and encountering those who had been left behind.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Walk down memory lane
Answer the following q…[Read more]

2.5 Priests and prophets
In this session we explore different understandings of Creation and God’s relationship to it.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Experiencing God and Creation

Consider two images:

A mechanical clock or t…[Read more]

2.4 The final edition
In this session we get an overview of some Old Testament history and a glimpse of the development of monotheism as it emerged in Scriptures.
Receiving a new story
Share ways in which you have noticed the content, questions or insights from the previous Module showing up in your lives.
Let’s talk about… the Old…[Read more]