{"id":35566,"date":"2024-02-06T04:35:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=35566"},"modified":"2024-02-06T04:35:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:35:58","slug":"%d9%85%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%ad%db%8c-%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%81-%d8%b4%d8%af%d9%87-%d8%af%d8%b1-%da%a9%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%88-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%be%d8%b1%db%8c%d9%86%da%af%d8%b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/%d9%85%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%ad%db%8c-%d9%85%d9%86%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%81-%d8%b4%d8%af%d9%87-%d8%af%d8%b1-%da%a9%d9%84%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%af%d9%88-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d9%be%d8%b1%db%8c%d9%86%da%af%d8%b2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0645\u0633\u06cc\u062d\u06cc \u0645\u0646\u0635\u0631\u0641 \u0634\u062f\u0647 \u062f\u0631 \u06a9\u0644\u0631\u0627\u062f\u0648 \u0627\u0633\u067e\u0631\u06cc\u0646\u06af\u0632."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u0645\u0633\u06cc\u062d\u06cc \u0645\u0646\u0635\u0631\u0641 \u0634\u062f\u0647 \u062f\u0631 \u06a9\u0644\u0631\u0627\u062f\u0648 \u0627\u0633\u067e\u0631\u06cc\u0646\u06af\u0632., Cancelled Christian in Colorado Springs (Arabic)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part 1: Introduction\/I think I have been cancelled!<\/p>\n

Part 2: What I gleaned from Greg<\/p>\n

Part 3: What my peers are saying<\/p>\n

Epilogue<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Part 1: I think I have been cancelled<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I came to Colorado Springs in 2021, I was dead sick with Covid for the 3rd<\/sup> time.\u00a0 Time passed and I healed up, unpacked the boxes, and moved into our new home. As the newly designated \u201chouse husband\u201d (my wife got a job at Focus on the Family) I was looking for activities beyond my husbandly duties.\u00a0 I gravitated to the Rotary Club.\u00a0 I was actively a part of the Texas Rotary, whose claim to fame as a community service organization was the reduction of Polio worldwide.<\/p>\n

Rotary is also a networking system of businessmen, and I am always looking for donors who might be amenable to my work with sports ministry in Slovakia, Hungary (and now Ukraine).<\/p>\n

I arrived at the golf course dining room and started to press the flesh.\u00a0 Wearing my Retired US Army hat, helped people identify me as a patriot who served his country \u2013 this usually works.\u00a0 NOT TODAY.<\/p>\n

I had the opportunity to be sitting next to the Rotary Governor of Colorado \u2013 he was visiting his flock.<\/p>\n

I spoke about my role in Rotary Texas, and we sat for about 5 minutes enjoying each other\u2019s company.\u00a0 Then I fell into a conversation pit.\u00a0 I mentioned that I worked with a Christian based NGO and hoped to marry the resources of Rotary to working with kids overseas and now in Colorado.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGov\u201d said, \u201cI think that would be a hard sell here in Colorado Springs.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 I was floored by his statement.\u00a0 In Texas, one led with your name and then what church you went to.\u00a0 It was assumed that the church was a part of your DNA.<\/p>\n

Well, I thought, you always come across unbelievers and that is what evangelism is all about!\u00a0 I moved on to a special meeting with the president of the club later that week.\u00a0 She was a churchgoer, so she said, however, at the conclusion of our talk she suggested that I find another club.\u00a0 This one apparently did not look kindly on combining faith and action.<\/p>\n

Hmmmm\u2026have I been cancelled because of my faith?<\/p>\n

Part 2 \u2013 What I gleaned from Greg and Rikki<\/strong><\/p>\n

In their book, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All – but There Is a Solution,<\/em> Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, describe canceling as, \u201cFor the purposes of the book, we define being canceled as being punished, being removed from a position, or getting fired. (p.315)[1]<\/a><\/p>\n

I would like to add to their definition, \u201cbeing excluded based on my faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the books forward, Jonathan Haidt writes, \u201cSometime around 2014, something big changed in American Society.\u00a0 It was if a flock of demons was unleashed upon the world, and the first place they flocked to was American college campuses (p.VI).<\/p>\n

The authors of this book will have an additional case study in their next book when cancellation backlash is discussed. As the Israeli\/Hamas war dominates the air waves, I observed the coverage of University presidents being raked over the coals for their opinions (or lack thereof) on the war. [2]<\/a><\/p>\n

I personally cheered for those with dollars held higher education to task. (But that is just my opinion).<\/p>\n

Going down a rabbit hole for a second, can I ask about microaggressions?<\/p>\n

What Is a Microaggression? A microaggression is a subtle, often unintentional, form of prejudice.\u00a0 Rather than an overt declaration of racism or sexism, a microaggression often takes the shape of an offhand comment, an inadvertently painful joke, or a pointed insult. For example, a person \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 might comment that an Asian American employee speaks English well. Another might ask where\u00a0 an American Indian student is from. A woman may cross the street when she sees an African\u00a0 \u00a0American man walking toward her at night.[3]<\/a><\/p>\n

I searched for microaggressions in this book and nothing was mentioned.\u00a0\u00a0 As a professor at a small college in Colorado, I was given a video and test on DEI and microaggressions.\u00a0 I wondered, \u201cWHY?\u201d<\/p>\n

I do speak English fairly well, my Chinese sucks, but I would like to think that while there needs to be grace amongst us, that my skin is thick enough to understand that people are being \u201chuman\u201d when they make a social faux pa.\u00a0 I am going to add \u201cforgiveness\u201d of things to do.<\/p>\n

Part 3: What my peers are saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

DLGP 02 \u2013 Tim Clark writes, \u201cThe antidote to cancel culture is the church loving one another, listening to one another, respecting one another.\u201d<\/p>\n

YES!<\/strong><\/p>\n

DLGP 02 \u2013 Jennifer Vernham asks an amazing series of questions. (here are two).<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Question: In the community of Christ, are we shrugging off a responsibility by not being willing to listen carefully to each other?<\/li>\n
  2. Question: How does the way we do or do not listen to each other in the Church community provide a testament to the grace we have received?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In my NPO the idea of refugee resettlement is assailed by many.\u00a0 Newcomers can \u201cpoison\u201d our society some say.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I am speaking about many churches.\u00a0 My response?\u00a0 I hope to bring diametrically opposed Christians together to view each other and refugees\/newcomers as God sees them \u2013 made in HIS image. <\/strong><\/p>\n

    \u00a0<\/strong>Epilogue:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Having been excluded from one Rotary club I was invited by the president of another club.\u00a0 A devout Muslim man who said essentially said that faith was a non-issue in the new group he was putting together. \u00a0While he maintained his own personal faith, he was putting together a group that was faithless (no prayers of invocation) and country less (no pledge of allegiance).<\/p>\n

    Alas, any faith and loyalty to country have been cancelled in Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

    _________________________________________<\/p>\n

    [1]<\/a> Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All – but There Is a Solution<\/em>, First Simon&Schuster hardcover edition (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2023).<\/p>\n

    [2]<\/a> Sequoia Carrillo, \u201cAfter a Disastrous Testimony, Three College Presidents Face Calls to Resign,\u201d NPR, December 8, 2023, sec. Education, https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/12\/08\/1218314691\/after-a-disastrous-testimony-three-college-presidents-face-calls-to-resign.<\/p>\n

    [3]<\/a> \u201cMicroaggression | Psychology Today,\u201d accessed February 6, 2024, https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/microaggression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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