{"id":38594,"date":"2024-09-19T23:25:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=38594"},"modified":"2024-09-19T23:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T06:25:24","slug":"dont-forget-to-play-a-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/dont-forget-to-play-a-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t forget to Play a little!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington, DC, here we come.\u00a0 Each global city we have encountered has been rich in history and intellect.\u00a0 We began our journey as cohort 2 in South Africa, being encouraged to play.\u00a0 To have fun.\u00a0 We finished our time there, walking into Desmond Tutu\u2019s foundation with a mannequin swinging from the Chandeliers.\u00a0 This image has stuck with me throughout my Doctoral studies as it can seem so serious.\u00a0 I have a serious job; it\u2019s not funny; it\u2019s deep and meaningful work to journey spiritually with someone dying and to help lead and develop those who do this work.\u00a0 Yet, hospice clinicians have some of the best humor, and we can laugh at ourselves and sometimes the absurdity of life.\u00a0 I say all of this because we are being called to be strong, centered, critical-thinking leaders in a broken world through all our readings and discussions.<\/p>\n

I used to love politics and was at one time in college a criminal justice major, but I have become very disenfranchised with the idea of America, and leading into this election, I feel exhausted and tired of loving people anyway.\u00a0 That is my modus operandi. I may not agree with your politics or beliefs, but I believe in imago dei; all are created in the image of God.\u00a0 And so I will bravely put my feet down in D.C. and be there in all my anxiety, worry, and disillusionment.\u00a0 A big part of my ability to do that is I am with you all, my friends and critical thinking partners.\u00a0 You all represent hope to me.\u00a0 And while politics is serious and America is in a tenous state, I hope we can find time to laugh and also enjoy this crazy ( a doctorate) thing we are doing!<\/p>\n

Jim Wallis\u2019 God\u2019s Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong, and the Left Doesn\u2019t Get it. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pivotal points\/thesis <\/strong><\/p>\n

Wallis challenges the religious and faithful in their involvement on our two-party system\u2019s right and left sides.\u00a0 Two chapters stood out to me, and I think they all stood out for all the right reasons. One was Chapter 5: How should your faith influence your politics? What\u2019s a Religious Voter to Do? What a timely chapter when people of faith are becoming increasingly divided in politics, yet both sides say they vote how their faith tells them to.\u00a0 Chapter 18 also stands out to me: A Consistent Ethic of Life.\u00a0 I honestly struggle with one voting issue and find it telling that this book was written in 2003 and completely applies to us today.<\/p>\n

Questions for the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. If you were to \u201crewrite\u201d this book today, 21 years later, would you change anything?<\/li>\n
  2. What do you think needs to happen to change the trajectory of our political landscape? Can it be done?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Brett Fuller\u2019s Dreaming in Black and White<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Pivotal points\/thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Brett Fuller takes an opportunity in Dreaming in Black and White<\/em> to acknowledge his calling to explain black culture to white people and to explain white culture to black people.\u00a0 Brett takes us as readers through his family’s history, leading to significant Black history.\u00a0 He is honest and gives an excellent summary of many of the atrocities that have occurred for Black Americans.\u00a0 Brett concludes his book with a letter to young black Americans, reminding them of where we have been as a nation but challenging them to use their voice to speak about what\u2019s happening now.\u00a0 Brett empowers our youth to know where they are from and to talk about where they are going.\u00a0 I found this book very informative and empowering to continue to wrestle and work on what it means to be an ally.<\/p>\n

    Questions for the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. In the book, you spoke about some of the experiments that healthcare has done without the proper permission of African American patients. As I work in healthcare and in Hospice (which predominately serves white people), how can we in Hospice come alongside to help African Americans die with peace and dignity without them feeling like they have been \u201cgiven up on\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Brett Fuller\u2019s High Ceilings: Women in Leadership<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

      Brett Fuller has taken a very controversial topic within Churches and provided a very concise, short, and impactful understanding of some of the \u201cclobber\u201d verses in the Bible often used to keep women submissive.\u00a0 Brett explains four definitions of how males and females should interact: Complementarian, Egalitarian, Complematarian-Egaliatarian (new one for me), and Suppressionist.\u00a0 Brett explains that there are some areas where men are in authority over women (ie.. marriage) but that there is nothing stating a Woman cannot live out her full calling as God has given.<\/p>\n

      Questions for the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. How do you advise women in marriages where the man is not following Jesus and yet demands submission to him? I have counseled many women in the church who struggle with taking the spiritual lead for this reason but don\u2019t have a husband who does. What do you advise?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        Washington, DC, here we come.\u00a0 Each global city we have encountered has been rich in history and intellect.\u00a0 We began our journey as cohort 2 in South Africa, being encouraged to play.\u00a0 To have fun.\u00a0 We finished our time there, walking into Desmond Tutu\u2019s foundation with a mannequin swinging from the Chandeliers.\u00a0 This image has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,3208,3250],"class_list":["post-38594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp02","tag-fuller","tag-wallis","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38595,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38594\/revisions\/38595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}