Comments on: Sunday Week 14 Year B http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/ Spirituality and Theology Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:21:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eifion http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/comment-page-1/#comment-245 Eifion Mon, 10 Jul 2006 15:38:45 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/#comment-245 Seems to me that if we start to compromise on this one we but right into the prevailing standards where the world belong to the pushy, the successful and the weak - or even those who shout less loudly - go to the wall. I don't want a God who colludes with this. Today's Gospel gives us a Jesus who is rejected and it is this Jesus we ask to follow more closely and, even though I say "ouch", this Jesus is more attractive than he would be if he were giving me the opposite message - "I want you to be strong, powerful successful." Seems to me that if we start to compromise on this one we but right into the prevailing standards where the world belong to the pushy, the successful and the weak – or even those who shout less loudly – go to the wall. I don’t want a God who colludes with this. Today’s Gospel gives us a Jesus who is rejected and it is this Jesus we ask to follow more closely and, even though I say “ouch”, this Jesus is more attractive than he would be if he were giving me the opposite message – “I want you to be strong, powerful successful.”

]]> By: crystal http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/comment-page-1/#comment-244 crystal Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:35:38 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/#comment-244 There are such bad examples of religion combined with politics that it's hard to imagine how it could work out well, but on the other hand, it's hard to imagine everything turning out ok, and us not destroying ourselves or the planet, without a society run on God based ethics ... maybe the tension between these two ways, and not either way itsself, carries some answer? There are such bad examples of religion combined with politics that it’s hard to imagine how it could work out well, but on the other hand, it’s hard to imagine everything turning out ok, and us not destroying ourselves or the planet, without a society run on God based ethics … maybe the tension between these two ways, and not either way itsself, carries some answer?

]]> By: Rob http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/comment-page-1/#comment-243 Rob Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:25:03 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/#comment-243 Crystal: No, I haven't read Newbegin's book. I might give it a look. I'm torn between the practicality and impracticality of God's politics. Is the Gospel always to be on the edge or can it be brought to the centre and made into a communal way of life in the world? Crystal: No, I haven’t read Newbegin’s book. I might give it a look. I’m torn between the practicality and impracticality of God’s politics. Is the Gospel always to be on the edge or can it be brought to the centre and made into a communal way of life in the world?

]]> By: crystal http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/comment-page-1/#comment-242 crystal Mon, 10 Jul 2006 02:36:47 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/#comment-242 <i>What if our politics put the poor first not last? What if our business gave back more than it took? What if our advertising told the truth? What if our religion made the outcast at home?</i> have you read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802801765/002-6329777-0370452?v=glance&n=283155" rel="nofollow">Foolishness to the Greeks</a> by Leslie Newbigin? in some ways it speaks of how to work toward this, though I don't undestand it well. What if our politics put the poor first not last? What if our business gave back more than it took? What if our advertising told the truth? What if our religion made the outcast at home?

have you read Foolishness to the Greeks by Leslie Newbigin? in some ways it speaks of how to work toward this, though I don’t undestand it well.

]]> By: Eifion http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Eifion Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:57:13 +0000 http://rmarsh.com/2006/07/09/sunday-week-14-year-b/#comment-241 Loved this. I did this reading at Mass and was very moved by it. Our priest finished by saying God is very close when we experience our weakness. If only I could remember this! Loved this. I did this reading at Mass and was very moved by it. Our priest finished by saying God is very close when we experience our weakness. If only I could remember this!

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