One among my colleagues on the Phoenix Heart for Non secular Path, Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason, feels a robust name to encourage dialogue amongst individuals and factions in our nation which are conflicted and polarized. Dr. Mason revealed this piece “Us in the Absence of a Them” just lately for the Berkley Heart for Faith, Peace and World Affairs of Georgetown College.
On this article she shares a few of her expertise from a current convention they held entitled The Church’s Mission in a Polarizing World: Finding Spaces for Surmounting Our Divisions.
This is a crucial matter for these of us who need each a job for the church within the public sq. and a reducing of the temperature between teams which are preventing. Right here’s a quote from her article:
We want interrupt our personal echo chambers earlier than we are able to interrupt others’. Within the Gospels, Jesus instructs followers, “first take the sign off of your individual eye, after which you will notice clearly to take the speck out of your neighbor’s eye.” Mercifully, religious disciplines and liturgical parts in varied Christian traditions may also help us acquire higher readability in regards to the roles we play in othering our opponents.
For extra on this, please learn “Us in the Absence of a Them” by Kelly Murphy Mason.
The Rev. Dr. Kelly Murphy Mason is a religious director, educator, psychotherapist, and author who serves as group minister for religious route at Arlington Avenue Church in Boston, Massachusetts. She additionally teaches within the apprenticeship program on the Phoenix Heart for Non secular Path and works as a guide reviewer for Presence, the quarterly journal of Non secular Administrators Worldwide. In 2022, she convened the Spirituality & Flourishing Curiosity Group inside the Harvard Flourishing Community and at present acts as its co-chair. For greater than a decade now, she has blogged at TheReverendDr.com on the subject of what heals us in our souls.
