Doing the BCM Restorative Justice unit, here’s a link to one of the articles.
“This theology of radical inclusion was disconcerting to both Jewish ethnocentrism and Hellenistic ideologies of superiority. In Greco-Roman antiquity the cultural, economic and political enmity between Jew and Gentile was profound. These two communities were institutionally and historically alienated—not unlike the modern legacy of racial apartheid or the protracted struggle between Israelis and Palestinians or Protestant Loyalists and Catholic Republicans in Northern Ireland. But Paul refused to abide by the social divisions around him, instead trying to build bridges called churches.”
So here I sit with:
- who is reconciliation to be accomplished by?
- what do we refuse to abide by?
- who/where are the bridge builders? (or alternative societies being modelled)?
- what are we called to be fools for?
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