Thanks for joining us for our conversation with the Very Reverend Winnie Sara Varghese, where we talk about truth, embodiment, trusting one's experience, and biblical stories contextualized in today's world, plus her important response to the excitement and fear that so many people of faith are feeling right now as they contemplate changing their mind and/or long held convictions about their religion and politics.
We were a student charge in the United Methodist Church, meaning part of our mission as a small church was to nurture our student pastors who stayed 4 years and then moved on. On. We could see when Divinity School hit them, because their sermons started to be difficult to understand, with lots of big words thrown in. One pastor joked later on that it takes 7 years to get the Divinity School out of the pastor so that they can start preaching messages that resonate.
And humanization as the work of our lives, seeking to be who God created us to be, "thisness".
And context of biblical study as embodiment--yes!!
We were a student charge in the United Methodist Church, meaning part of our mission as a small church was to nurture our student pastors who stayed 4 years and then moved on. On. We could see when Divinity School hit them, because their sermons started to be difficult to understand, with lots of big words thrown in. One pastor joked later on that it takes 7 years to get the Divinity School out of the pastor so that they can start preaching messages that resonate.
And humanization as the work of our lives, seeking to be who God created us to be, "thisness".
And context of biblical study as embodiment--yes!!
Thank you for a rich discussion!
haha, yes, 7 years ... sounds about right. thanks Susan!