Growing a Beloved Community
Author: Tom Owen-Towle
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781558964648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Tom Owen-Towle
Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781558964648
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles Marsh
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2004-12-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780465044153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King, Jr.- then a young minister only two years out of divinity school - declared that their common goal was not simply the end of segregation as an institution. Rather, “the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the beloved community.” King's words reflect the strong religious impetus behind the civil rights movement in the South in its early days. Consciously emphasizing the Judeo-Christian roots of their convictions, civil rights leaders at the time saw their ultimate purpose as building a “beloved community” on earth. In their quest for social justice, the radical idea of Christian love, specifically through the practice of nonviolence, would transform the social and political realities of twentieth-century America. By the end of the 1960s, that exuberant vision of the beloved community had come apart, lost to disillusionment and secular radicalism. But as noted theologian Charles Marsh shows, the same spiritual vision that animated the civil rights movement remains a vital-and growing-source of moral energy today. In moving prose, Marsh traces the history of this vision over the past four decades, from the racial reconciliation movement in American cities to the intentional communities that church groups have founded. His portraits of faith-based social justice initiatives-including Eugene Rivers' Azusa Christian Community in Boston and Koinonia Farm in Georgia-offer a stark contrast to the usual media portrayal of Christian activism. Despite the odds against it, the pursuit of the beloved community continues to foster racial unity and civic responsibility in a divided American culture. With The Beloved Community , Marsh lays out a exuberant new vision for Christian progressivism, and simultaneously reclaims the centrality of faith in the quest for social justice.
Author: Marlon A. Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 149856934X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reshaping Beloved Community: The Experiences of Black Male Felons and Their Impact on Black Radical Traditions offers a reflexive interrogation on the history of black male incarceration in the United States starting in the nineteenth century to both illustrate the complex ways black male felons have been discursively constructed and the various techniques utilized in the United States to erase the contributions of black male felons and their black radical projects. This erasure has left many black men without the benefit of fellowship and community. Therefore, Reshaping Beloved Community focuses on particular black male felons and their cultural production to highlight experiences of blackness that is often marginalized or ignored. In order to characterize these experiences and contributions of black male felons, Reshaping Beloved Community expands Victor Anderson’s definition of creative exchange by offering contemplative conversations of black male felons in history and the cultural works they produced. It draws on an interdisciplinary approach to reveal how some black male felons have used prison and the experience of incarceration to craft narratives and liberation movements. The philosophical approach within Reshaping Beloved Community deploys constructive and innovative concepts, particularly of the grotesque, to interpret how black male felons have resisted American political and cultural restraints on their humanity. Anderson’s concepts of creative exchange help create a framework that enables readers to see how the cultural production of black male felons reveals the unique experiences and worldview of black men trapped in various forms of penal captivity. These experiences speak to a deeper reality that is largely hidden because of the ways incarceration and penal captivity diminishes certain people in society. Yet a reengagement with those movements helps to link black male felons to the whole of black life and culture. In the end, Reshaping Beloved Community allows black radical scholars to gain deeper insight into the roles black male felons have played in critiquing American politics and culture. Moreover, it shows that the cultural productions of black male felons are just as important to understanding black life in American society as slave narratives, blues music, and the like.
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Publisher: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Published:
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1558966005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Audri Scott Williams
Publisher: Nowtime Publications
Published: 2015-03-27
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780967023953
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Awakening the Heart of the Beloved Community is a compelling collection of the voices of the beloved community. The narratives of each writer, which includes Rev. Michael Bernard Beckwith and Andrew Harvey, are masterfully woven together in a book that will take you higher, drop you down and then lift you gently and lovingly and land you right in your heart - the center of the continuing evolution of the beloved community that is the foundation for a sustainable future for generations to come.
Author: Linda Lee
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1426758405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These stories and readers' stories together build a new community.
Author: Mark Yaconelli
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2009-07-13
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0310831164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Youth Ministry and Spirituality Project was formed in 1997 to participate in the renewal of youth ministry in the Christian church. Its mission is to foster Christian communities that are attentive to God’s presence, discerning of the Spirit and who accompany young people into the way of Jesus. Our mission is founded on the biblical vision of the human person who is created in the image and likeness of God and whose deepest longing is for communion with God and others in love. In response to Christ’s invitation to abide in him (John 15:4), we believe that the central purpose of youth ministry is to open the minds and hearts of young persons to an intimate relationship with God in Christ through the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. We seek to fulfill our mission through retreats, workshops, training events, written materials, and relationships that promote a contemplative approach to youth discipleship. The contemplative approach to youth ministry is based on a Christian community’s commitment to cultivate attentiveness to God’s Presence in the lives of young people and is supported in the following seven ways: SABBATH, PRAYER, COVENANT COMMUNITY, ACCOMPANIMENT, DISCERNMENT, HOSPITALITY, AUTHENTIC ACTION.
Author: Deborah Fisch
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deborah Fisch spoke out of the silence for this 2014 Michener Lecture, telling us stories about getting to know each other on a deeper level and nourish community. She encourages us to take opportunities to be present with each other, to share our stories and listen to each other, to be faithful in ministry, and to be present together in seeking and following leadings of the Spirit. Publisher's description.