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Go Deeper – April 26 2020

25/04/2020 by Darren Wright

Invitation 01 – Make some bread, break it and share it with someone.

As you do remember the meals you’ve had with strangers who have turned friends. What are your favourite memories of meals shared?

Theodore and I have put a very simple Soda Bread recipe up on my Facebook page for people to use.

Invitation 02 – Remix the Psalm

https://vimeo.com/411452183

Psalm 116 will be back in the readings again very soon, here is an invitation to remix it and share it with each other, perhaps you’d like to rewrite it’s words, turn it into a poem, a song, a piece of art…

Spend some time with the Psalm and send in your creations so we can share them with each other.

If you really enjoyed remixing the Psalm, perhaps you can make it a regular task and email your creations in for use in community worship.

Invitation 03 – Lectio Vicinitas (Neighbourhood Reading)

Lectio Vicinitas is a spriritual practice that invites us to walk around our neighbourhood and seek the spirit during our journey,

We have a description and instructions for this practice on our website here.

Walking Together

25/04/2020 by Darren Wright

Plan a walk together this week, perhaps you can get a map and mark out where you’ll walk. How long will it take, what provisions will you need?

Discuss with the children journeys they make on foot on a regular basis. Where do they go? Who are they walking with? Talk about the story. Talk about the importance of having good friends who will listen to you, with whom you can share worries as well as good things.

Talk about how Jesus walked with the two friends even when they did not recognise him.

Film Series: On Our Way

21/04/2020 by Darren Wright

This series of videos comes from The Work From The People, we have a subscription to their catalogue and have made a number of the films available with discussion/reflection material for people to use in their faith formation. Please do not distribute the films beyond the GUC community, or upload to youtube or facebook.

https://vimeo.com/387929486

Session 01 – An Invitation with Dorothy Bass

Series Description:

What makes a good life? Wrestling with questions about how to live your life is part of being human. These films were created in accompaniment to the book project On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life. The authors are passionate about practicing their faith in the real world, for the good of all, and in response to God’s presence. They invite you to join them in exploring a way of life that is rooted in Christian wisdom while also moving toward the future, a way of life overflowing with God’s justice, mercy, and love.

Themes:

Spiritual Practices, Life, Christian Practices, Faith formation, Justice, Mercy, God, money, discernment, friendship, study, living as community, loving our neighbour, doing justice, honouring the body.

Discussion Guide

If you would like access to this video series and the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright for the link and password for the videos.

Darren also has a copy of the book, On Our Way which the videos were created for. If you would like to borrow the book please contact Darren.

Session Titles:

Session 01 – An Invitation with Dorothy C. Bass
Session 02 – Study with Matthew Myer Boulton
Session 03 – Discerning God’s Call with Jennifer Grant Haworth
Session 04 – Living as Community with Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Session 05 – Friendship and Intimacy with Stephanie Paulsell Singing our Lives to God w/Tony Alonso
Session 06 – Care for Creation with Daniel Spencer
Session 07 – Making a Good Living with Douglas A. Hicks
Session 08 – Honouring the Body with Evelyn Parker
Session 09 – Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths with Scott Alexander
Session 10 – Peacemaking and Nonviolence with Mary Emily Briehl Duba
Session 11 – Doing Justice with Joyce Hollyday
Session 12 – Living in the Presence of God with Susan Briehl

Film Series: Materiality as Resistance with Walter Brueggemann

21/04/2020 by Darren Wright

Description:

Welcome to this film series with Walter Brueggemann discussing thoughts from his new book, Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World. Materiality as Resistance is a textured teaching about who we are called to be in the world through the lens of loving God, loving ourselves, and loving our neighbor. Walter discusses faith and our responsibility to one another, and how churches can model collaborative social structure, and goes so far as to invite individual believers and church leadership to start considering making decisions with the neighbor and neighborhood in mind.

Series Trailer:

https://vimeo.com/407618547

Themes:

Moral Action, Life, Justice, Faith, Action, Peace, Neighbour, Ethics, Scripture, Discipleship

Discussion Guide:

The Series includes a discernment and discussion guide. If you would like access to this video series and the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright for the link and password for the videos.

Purchase Materiality as Resistance: Five Elements for Moral Action in the Real World by Walter Brueggemann .

Series Sessions:

Session 01 – Materiality
Session 02 – Money
Session 03 – Food
Session 04 – The Body
Session 05 – Time
Session 06 – Place
Session 07 – Change the Conversation

Included bonus visual liturgy film // Psalm 115

Film Series: The Bible Tells Me So

20/04/2020 by Darren Wright

A Seven Part Series on The Bible

Themes:

Bible, Questions, Story, Reading Scripture, Faith

Series Description:

What if the Bible is fine just the way it is? Not a well behaved Bible, where everything lines up and makes sense, but the messy, troubling, and weird Bible we actually have? What if the Bible doesn’t need to be protected and defended, but understood–just as it is? What if the real problem isn’t the Bible but the false expectations we sometimes bring to it? Perhaps, when we let the Bible be the Bible rather than what we expect it ought to be–or need it to be–we will find a deeper faith in the process.

The curriculum, written by Andrew Hill, includes 7 sessions with an accompanying discussion guide. If you would like access to this video series and the discussion guide please contact Darren Wright for the link and password for the videos.