[amc] Re: a note from the pastor
- From: Steve Friesen <Friesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Nevitt D. Reesor" <reesor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Austin Mennonite Church <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:10:08 -0600
Nevitt,
Maybe you should come up with an additional weekly reading for the
lectionary...from Nietzsche :-)
Steve
"I must confess that over the last few years I have
been gravely disappointed with the white moderate.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that
the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward
freedom is not the white citizen's Counciler or the
Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more
devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a
negative peace which is the absence of tension to a
positive peace which is the presence of justice...;
who paternalistically feels that he can set the
timetable for another man's freedom... I had hoped
that the white moderate would understand that law and
order exist for the purpose of establishing justice..."
--Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
> From: "Nevitt D. Reesor" <reesor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:29:03 -0600
> To: Austin Mennonite Church <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [amc] Re: a note from the pastor
>
> ? a shamelessly provocative response from Nietzsche to one of the
> schools of thought you mention below:
>
>
> I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them
> learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own
> bodies?and thus become silent.
>
> "Body am I, and soul"?thus speaks the child. And why should one not
> speak like children?
>
> But the awakened and knowing say: body am I entirely, and nothing
> else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.
> The body is a great reason, a plurality with one sense, a war and a
> peace, a herd and a shepherd. An instrument of your body is also your
> little reason, My brother, which you call "spirit²?a little
> instrument and toy of your great reason.
>
> from Thus Spoke Zarathustra
>
>
> Nevitt
>
>
> On Feb 10, 2006, at 2:12 PM, garland robertson wrote:
>
> Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church
>
>
> I trust you are renewed in your spirit as you continue your journey
> of faith.
>
>
> The quest to determine how our physical reality relates to the
> spiritual dimension reaches far back into antiquity. Extreme
> variations in attitudes about how spirit and matter impact each other
> has produced an astonishing display of behaviors. In religious
> contexts, the subject primarily is discussed as a consequence of the
> association of ?spirit¹ and ?flesh¹ which defines the human
> creature. Ancient explanations regard the human as a combination of
> these two distinct elements. In the Genesis account, spirit and
> flesh unite to compose the ?soul¹ of the human which God created in
> the divine image. Many persons have sensed that this composition
> establishes an unresolved duality of good and evil. The primordial
> incompatibility of spirit and flesh requires the faithful to war
> against the evil flesh in order to live in union with God. Others
> maintain that the spirit and the flesh coexist in harmony. Any
> disruption that arises for the human originates from sources removed
> from the spirit-flesh dynamic How have religious teachings
> influenced your attitude about God¹s intention for uniting spirit and
> flesh? What is the perspective which seems to be the understanding
> of Jesus as he preached the good news and ministered to distressed
> persons ? These thoughts will compose the sermon for this next
> Sunday, ³The prose of spirit and flesh.²
>
>
> May it go well with you. Sincerely,
>
> Garland Robertson
>
>
>
> ...always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do
> something to bring some portion of misery to an end
>
>
>
>
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