I have been going to Berwick Camp all week, listening to Gary Patterson. Tonight, he spoke about Friday night at General Council , the event that
@Carolla posted in her thread about racism in the UCC. The reading was the canaan woman who asks Jesus for mercy and was first dismissed by Jesus not counting her as “ the children”, who then aswered “ even the dog get to eat the crumbs under the table”. Now, Gary said, Jesus was a jerk, who had and did learn to “ unpack his privilege” .
Then he retold the speech of the intercultural observer at GC and how it changed the “ schedule/ procedure” of GC, resulting in all these testemonies.
Used to quaker worship, I find myself having problems switching to the next happy song after a sermon like that.
I did write a little comment about the sermon and a link to WC2 s thread with the video for the Berwick Camp newsletter ( which is published daily), to give people opportunity to watch this themselves and maybe participate in the discussion. I don’t get my hopes up of many people showing up here, after all, its 34 degrees and people at camp are on vacation, but I felt the need to spread information. I added the self description of wondercafe from the “ who we are” page.
I have to say, after Gary spoke about Panentheism in his first sermon, I feel my being on WC for all these years has really kept me in the loop with theological and UCC trends.
) a film was shown of a woman in Africa, Rwanda I think, who visits prisoners every week (they call her mom), to tell them she loves them, that God loves them...including the man who killed some of her family members.
