[Dialogue] [Oe List ...] Breakfast News Conversations...

Mon Aug 31 07:24:15 PDT 2015

Good point, Randy.  I think the "liberal heresy" today would be that the United States is called to fully accept all immigrants, without conditions.  The Trump plan to deport all who are undocumented is the opposite.  What might be the "orthodox" belief.

Karen (Wright) Bueno

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Regarding the liberal heresy, one of the learnings I remember from the study of this paper is that in formulating some of the early creeds of the church, heresy was not a perversion of orthodoxy, but instead heresy preceded and gave rise to orthodoxy. Someone would come forth with a doctrine or tenet or whatever and the establishment would say, "well that's not correct, that's not what we believe." In the process they would be forced to formulate what they did believe, which often would then become the orthodox position. Seen in this light, heresy actually is a contributing factor, the motivation behind the church getting clarity on where it stood. Not sure what we would point to in the social realm as heresy today, but it seems possible that, whatever it is, it could play that same role of forcing us to clarify our own position. 

Randy  

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On Aug 25, 2015, at 12:59 PM, Frank Knutson via OE <  oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:  

Enclosed: THE LIBERAL HERESY  \   
I think it was given by John Epps or maybe Gene Marshall????   

<THE LIBERAL HERESY.docx>  

"What appears to be a breaking down of civilization 
may well be simply the breaking up of old forms by life itself."      
    ~      Joyce Carol Oates     

<VIKING copy.jpeg>  

          ❤      Frank                 

On Aug 25, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Rod Rippel via Dialogue <       dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:      

Fascists and dictators (and now just about everyone) have long understood that       
deviant behavior is encouraged by the fact that the media give it coverage.       
For example it used to be, "Don't write about suicide" because the mere       
mention of suicide might inspire someone to commit suicide in the next few days.       
Now we are flooded with all kinds of deviant inspiration.  We live in a time of       
internet, Facebook, Twitter and adultery matchup-services.       
Like the phrase sometimes used in the RS-1 'Freedom Lecture,'  "All Is Known,"       
literally!  The inundation of 'information' has either swamped us with stress and       
physical reaction or prompted a new level of defensive withdrawal from engaging.       
Scriptural wisdom and "Deciding" goes by the board!       
-----Original Message----- From: steve har via OE       
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:06 AM       
To:        oe at lists.wedgeblade.net ; Order Ecumenical ICA-USA       
Subject: [Oe List ...] Breakfast News Conversations...       

Also called scripture/news conversations       

You remember them right?       
random bits of recalled news and then a piece of scriptural wisdom       
what to do about it?       

These days news like trying to "drink from a fire hose"       
My experience now living in the USfA now rather than Costa Rica and       
listening to USA media is curious.       

Feels to me like a case of news culture ADHD where nothing is       
connected to anything except by more and more crisis news events, more       
passionate & positional thinking more economic political and cultural       
and more and more "news journalists" driving to their bank on the       
stream of news.       

My friend Jack Gilles, if I quote him right, says ORID conversations       
no longer have a "D" now because it it is all interpretation, everyone       
has an opinion, everyone is a spectator stuck in the stands watching       
an unplayable game.       

Now in conversations  is no "D" in ORID, no one knows how to Decide or what Do.       
"D" stands for Dumpster or "Don't decide" or "Despair" or just "Done".       

Joe Mathews had a paper, I believe,  which he  called the liberal       
heresy - aybe it was the conservative heresy or the reactionary       
heresy.       
He used some fancy theological terminology like "the  immediacy of the       
eschaton" which I never did understand,exactly.       
Anyone remember this paper?       

Wondering where IS the scripture part, the wisdom part of the       
breakfast news conversation?       

The Christian Science Monitor says THEY are doing two things...As days       
and weeks pass, the media move on to new stories, often neglecting to       
tell the “what’s possible?” stories about how the people and       
communities affected by these tragedies are coping and what they’re       
learning. We hear these types of stories on one-year anniversaries,       
but they’re not an ongoing part of the media’s coverage the way that       
the “what happened?” stories are. A growing body of research is       
confirming what many have long suspected — that a steady diet of       
trauma and disaster triggers stress, fear and trauma in those       
consuming the stories.       

What if the news media covered stories of recovery and resilience as       
much as they cover stories about devastation and despair?       
       http://ivoh.org/restorativenarrative/       

Steve       

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