![]() ![]() It is not a linear movement it is an infinity loop, a life-long call. Meyers highlights the post crucifixion appearance of an angel who says “…he is going ahead of you to Galilee…” For Jesus’ followers, their course on following is not over. To my eyes, the Myers’ sketch suggests a nature image-butterfly wings-the spotting and color bands of one wing mirroring the other. ![]() As the stories progress, the thematic linkage between the two loops is visualized. Story #1 in the Galilean loop is thematically matched to story #1 in the Jerusalem loop. Myers illustrates the story telling sequence in each infinity loop with a pencil drawing. One loop follows Jesus and his disciples as they travel through Galilee, and the second loop follows them as they travel in and around Jerusalem. Mark presents the story of Jesus and his disciples as an infinity loop. In his commentary on the Gospel of Mark, he argues that Mark structures his gospel in such a way as to challenge his readers to embrace the role of following Jesus. Following is the heartbeat that circulates life in the body of Christ and, through the body of Christ, circulates life in the world.Ĭhed Myers is another theologian who has thought deeply about the meaning of following Jesus. They are invited to walk away from every life affirming instinct they have-mother/father, vocation, and state. He says that friends of Jesus aren’t asked to theologize, to join, even to organize-just to follow. To answer my question, I turned to Dietrich Bonhoeffer who tells us that Jesus is only known in following. My intuition was that Creation Care was more urgent than that. For them creation care is-essentially a hobby, an optional pursuit of an interest outside one’s regular vocation. Still, a question lingered: what is the relationship between creation care and Christian discipleship? Was addressing environmental issues central to following Jesus or was it peripheral? For many Christians, following Jesus means joining church or defending a sound theology. At the time, something about it felt right, intuitive, urgent even, something essential to my Christian calling. Subscribe to our News & Ideas newsletter or receive our RSS feed in your RSS reader.I was invited into Creation Care ministry about twenty years ago. Want to get News & Ideas in your inbox every weekday? It all started when my uncle sent a tiny wooden picnic table* in the mail, Bon Appétit says. I miss restaurants, so I opened my own…for a chipmunk Holland Sentinel: Keith Mannes has served as a pastor in the Christian Reformed Church for more than 30 years, but laid down his ministry amid increasing internal tension over the denomination’s broad support of President Donald Trump. Holland CRC pastor leaves church amid political tensions ![]() Inside Higher Ed: Reflecting new polling that indicates college-educated white evangelicals are moving away from supporting Trump, many on Christian campuses are struggling to back him. Religion News Service: A former student at a Kentucky church has alleged that Rice sexually abused him after meeting him at a church retreat.Ĭhristian college faculty aren't lining up for Trump Kentucky church to investigate Chris Rice, Christian musician, after abuse allegation Religion News Service: Clergy shortage grows to more than 3k Catholics for every priest, Vatican data shows The church is losing touch with working-class Catholics*Īmerica: Attendance and affiliation have been eroding steadily since the 1970s for all income brackets, but the sharpest decline has been among the two bottom economic quartiles, according to data gleaned from the U.S. Most US clergy avoid hellfire threats over abortion politicsĪssociated Press: Fierce, openly partisan rhetoric against abortion is attention-grabbing, but it remains the exception in America’s diverse religious landscape, even in this divisive election year. ![]()
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