Community: As it should be by Kimberly Brown

Community: As it should be by Kimberly Brown https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT Made with ♥ en-us 2018-09-05 14:08:33 UTC 2024-10-09 11:02:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Doubleheart.png "'We can do little for the slave as long as we're under the the feet of men. Do what you have to do, censure us, withdraw your support, we'll press on anyway. Now, sirs, kindly take your feet off our necks.'" kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/277996251 (The Invention of Wings, 334)]]> 2018-09-05 14:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/277996251 "Lady Soul, you are so "co-natured" in Me that nothing can be interposed between you and Me. Never for one single hour was any angel given the honor that is bestowed on you for all Eternity. That is why you must cast off these two things: fear and shame, as well as all exterior virtues. It is only those that you carry within you by nature that you must desire to feel externally: these virtues are your noble desire and your insatiable hunger which I shall satisfy eternally with My infinite superabundance." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/280375085 (Mechthild, Of Seven Things Concerning the Way of Love)]]> 2018-09-12 14:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/280375085 "That same holy accord which we accord to God when we fell him, truly wishing to be with him with all our heart, with all our soul and with all our strength, leads us to hate and despise our evil impulses and everything which might be the occasion of bodily or spiritual sin. And yet nevertheless when this sweetness is hidden, we fall back into our blindness, and into woe and tribulation in various ways. But then this is our comfort: that through our faith we know that by the power of Jesus Christ, our protector, we never consent to it, but we are discontented with it, and endure pain and woe, praying until the time when he shows himself to us again. And so we remain in this mixed state all the days of our life. But he wants us to have faith that he is unfailingly with us." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/283479724 (Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love)]]> 2018-09-19 15:14:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/283479724 "'I cannot pretend that God's presence as the 'heart' of the world takes the pain of the experience away; I cannot pretend that the suffering may not destroy the creature's consciousness, before death claims it. That is the power of suffering...I can only suppose that God's suffering presence is just that, presence, of the most most profoundly attentive and loving sort, a solidarity that at some deep level takes away the aloneness of the suffering creature's experience'...the death of Christ becomes an icon of God's solidarity with all creatures." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/286098164 (Elizabeth A. Johnson, Abounding in Kindness)]]> 2018-09-26 15:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/286098164 "It is difficult not to be overwhelmed by oppression's magnitude and not to feel as if all one can do is helplessly in it shadow. For the woman who views these oppressions as sin, however, the grip of despair does not linger long; in faith, she affirms the reality of redemption, the future of women's flourishing. In this way, when feminists of faith speak of oppression as 'sin,' they shift its meaning by invoking a powerful sense of hope. When one sees women's brokenness as sin, one is proclaiming that all is not lost, that the eventual flourishing of women will come as God promises." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/288707742 (Serene Jones, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology]]> 2018-10-03 15:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/288707742 "The holiness of ordinary persons in the midst of ordinary time needs to be ever more strongly taught and celebrated if people are not to be robbed of their true Christian identity... If the whole community enjoys a transforming relationship with the triune God, then social relationships and structures within the community of disciples that do not embody this truth are distorted and in need of reform. Spiritual equality presses the question of social and political equality to the fore." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/291297142 (Elizabeth A. Johnson, Abounding in Kindness)]]> 2018-10-10 15:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/291297142 "In a 2008 speech on race... Barack Obama said, 'The past isn't dead and buried. In fact, it isn't even past.' He is right. Slavery's past of the black body as chattel has been so seared into the American psyche that it continues to cheapen black life. The apologies for slavery can never be enough as long as America's narrative of Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism continues to generate new constructions of the black body as chattel. To be chattel is for the black body never to be free from the fatal mark of being guilty of something." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/296259852 (Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground]]> 2018-10-24 02:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/296259852 "In the very act of nourishing our flesh with his flesh, we women and men are made new in Christ, emboldened to surrender position and privilege and power and wealth, to abolish all claims to racial and cultural superiority, to contradict repressive codes of gender formation and sexual orientation... we are all transformed in Christ: we are his very own flesh. If my sister or brother is not at the table, we are not the flesh Christ. If my sister's mark of sexuality must be obscured, if my brother's mark of race must be disguised, if my sister's mark of culture must be repressed, then we are not the flesh of Christ. For it is through and in Christ's own flesh that the 'other' is my sister, is my brother; indeed the 'other' is me." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/301483847 (M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom)]]> 2018-11-07 13:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/301483847 "Eucharistic solidarity opposes all intentionally divisive segregation of bodies on specious grounds of preference for race or gender or sexual orientation or culture. Eucharistic solidarity contests any performance of community as 'an atomized aggregate of mutually suspicious individuals' or as self-righteously self-sustaining or as historically innocent or as morally superior or as monopoly on truth. In spatial inclusion, authentic recognition, and humble embrace of different bodies, Eucharistic celebration forms our social imagination, transvalues our values, and transforms the meaning of our being human, of embodying Christ. To put it compactly, embodying Christ is discipleship, and discipleship is embodied praxis." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/304104696 (M. Shawn Copeland, Enfleshing Freedom)]]> 2018-11-14 02:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/304104696 "In the incarnation, the divine mystery is no the effect of distance or separation, but rather of God becoming flesh... the task for human beings is 'no longer a matter of rediscovering the transparence of God outside the world, but a matter of entering body and soul into an enigmatic life, the obscurities of which cannot be dissipated.' It is the obscurities of the world that point to God. Entering into that life means acknowledging that our complete being is caught up in that very world... there would be no knowledge without bodies and no bodies without their constitutive relations to the world." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/308607380 (Mayra Rivera, Poetics of the Flesh)]]> 2018-11-28 02:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/308607380 "I am of this world. The movements of my body, seeing and touching, speaking and thinking, constitute my body and contribute to the flesh of the world. The flesh of the world weaves the flesh of my body, beneath the surface of the skin, below the oders of the visible. Human and nonhuman forces affect me from withing, at the most fundamental levels of my body. Its complex fabric is woven by multiple entities that live and act in my body, by the sedimentation of past events, the constant flow of elements in and out of it. Based on its unique rhythms and textures, its distant histories and ongoing habits, each body incarnates the world in particular ways... We belong to the same world but we inhabit it differently. We perceive and are perceived differently. Social relations shape my perception of my body, the bodies of others, and the relationship between them." kmbrown10 https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/311184438 (Mayra Rivera, Poetics of the Flesh)]]> 2018-12-05 00:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kmbrown10/WT/wish/311184438