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
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Exploring faith

When you were blindfolded to play the “trust” game, what made you…[Read more]

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
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Walk down memory lane
Answer the following questions: Have you ever…[Read more]

In this session we explore different understandings of Creation and God’s relationship to it.
Receiving a new story
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Experiencing God and Creation

Consider two images:

A mechanical clock or toy. This image r…[Read more]

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
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Let’s talk about… the Old Testament

El Elyon
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In this session we look at texts representing the argument in Israel about whether God required child sacrifice, or sacrifice of the firstborn. Human sacrifice makes us so queasy that we often have a hard time understanding how our ancestors in the faith could believe God required such a thing. But ritualized sacrifice worked in much the same way…[Read more]

This module culminates in an insight about the connection between our interpretative key and prophecy.
Receiving a new story
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Reading the mysteries backwards
Share a favorite mystery or detective story. Describe what effect…[Read more]

As we begin Part Two, we will start to see how meaning opens up to us when we read Scripture through the eyes of the Forgiving Victim. Even stories that we avoided because they made us uncomfortable begin to make sense as part of a larger process of revelation and discovery.
Receiving a new story
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As we conclude our look at the Emmaus story and complete Part 1,  please share your reflections on the unexpected reversal that happens over a meal near the end of the Emmaus account and what this reveals to you.
Receiving a new story

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In this Module, we explored the question raised by Luke in the story of the road to Emmaus: His question is not what does Scripture say, but how do you read? It’s a question of interpretation.
Receiving a new story

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In this module, James discusses the idea that a big part of being on the receiving end of Divine Revelation is being given a new story about ourselves. Please share your thoughts, comments, discoveries and responses to these questions.
Receiving a new story
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This session introduces two very important ideas that will be used throughout the course. The first is that the “social other” is everything in the world other than you and which brought you into being. The second is about desire: we desire according to the desire of the other.

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