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How can Creation Spirituality support Aboriginal peoples' in the production of Indigneous Christian theological knowledge?
Hi Antonio...been thinking about your questions - Check out the Youtubes series on Elders Speak (there is an elder in Part IV of the series that talks a bit about your question...check it out ok. I also have some experience lately (hence the trip ...
Again, more than happy to learn and help...give me a couple of weeks to settle in El Paso and then I am on board as it were! Hey there Mary...long time no hear! Cheerz all.
Hi Tom...I thought that I responded to this blog but I can't find my response....so I will respond again...I - as always am impressed with your dedication and determination to pursue such postcolonial projects as Minnesota's apology and the bulls ...
Hmm, when your ready Antonio.
I probably should have spelled it "epiphanic", rather than epiphonic, since it has to do with epiphany, rather than phonics. Picky, picky, picky me!
By the way, I liked the "Homeland Security" photo well enough to look up the website & check it o...
Hi Antonio. Gosh,you are a deep thinker! I appreciate what you are saying about Aboriginal people and its from the perspective of my people that I think that I have a basis to understand your thinking....whereas I go back to traditional thinking, ...
Yeah I like that word..think that I will use it....got through the border though, now I am suffering through disney land fireworks every night .... we are rv'ing at a place about four blocks...I will be glad to get to the desert and connect with e...
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- How did you come to discover Creation Spirituality?
- Read Matthew Fox's book, saw the You Tube videos on Creation Spirituality and heard of him when I was at the Vancouver School of Theology
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- At 12:53am on February 21, 2009,
wendy maclean said… - Hi Bruce--
I am not sure if you have finished your internet transition, but I wanted to reply to your reply.
(Michel tells me there is a difference between discussion and comments--a finess I have yet to acquire).
I am interested in your comment about wanting "conversation" not "syncretism."
I have been listening to Brian Swimme's "Powers of the Cosmos"--and am intrigued with his discussion about the membrane and the catalyst.
The membrane protects, the catalyst opens and transforms.
So, speaking of "syncretism"--this is the adaptation of one form into another, which transforms both (at its best)--working with a "membrane" --the existing culture.
The tragedy is when one culture dominates, and the other is forced into recession (like with aboriginal cultures).
Is there a better scenario?
Like--with Creation Spirituality--this is pretty syncretistic---drawing from many traditions. It is in a formation process, beginning to form a membrane of what IS creation spirituality, and what ISN'T.
When does conversation morph into a longing to shape a new centre which envelops the new ideas? And when does the envelope become a temple?
Have a glorious day in this precious earth envelope.
Wendy
ps
We live about an hour south east of Montreal, right near the Vermont border.
- At 4:55pm on February 20, 2009,
Shaz said… - Hi Bruce and thanks much for your enthusiasm around this issue.
To answer your question regarding my background.
Yes I am a proud graduate with UCS and pleased to say have had working and long lasting relationships with many of those UCS grads. I feel this is my tribe.
I too was attracted to CS and Matt especially having been raised in a strict Catholic upbringing. Our interests seem very similar. While I am grateful to have had a Catholic upbringing (I love the symbolic nature of Catholicism) I never felt fully embraced inside the church in the way it was presented. My spiritual awareness was split wide open when taking part of Native American tribal pow wows and other ceremonial gathering in the small town in which I lived near 3 small tribes.
It was a language I spoke and resonated with at a very deep level. I truly believe I have a significant past-life as a native (perhaps as a Shaman since I have had insights of such). I am white and adopted so I don't know exactly my roots, however my learning style as a visual learner is very much in alignment like that of the Natives.
I would love to continue this conversation however I am somewhat protective of the Shamanic insights I hear and feel that is to be kept sacred and not displayed on open display.
Let's talk more...
Peace
Shaz
- At 11:10am on February 20, 2009,
George Polley said…
- An update for you: Stephen Abbott is also interested in looking at all my Grandfather Tales stories for possible publication as an e-book. I have about 60 pages of them! (Can't believe it's that much, but it is. I just completed the latest one yesterday, "Grandfather and the Deer". Send me your email address, & I'll send you a copy.
Blessings, Bruce,
George
- At 10:50am on February 19, 2009,
George Polley said…
- You are very welcome, Bruce. I look forward to working with you. Wish we had a CS community here in Sapporo, but at present, we don't.
A bit of news to share with you: Stephen Abbott of Abbott Media in New Hampshire has accepted "The Old Man and The Monkey" for publication next month as an e-book, complete with Calisse Weidner's drawings. I'm elated. And he is interested in the "Grandfather Stories" I've been working on, and may also publish them as an e-book. I have about 12 of those stories in three "groups": Grandfather and the Wolves, Grandfather and the Raven, and Grandfather and the Deer.
I have no idea where all these stories will end up in terms of number. They seem to just kinda "arrive" and demand that I write them, then take off more or less on their own. I'll let you know when I know more about his publishing a book of them. I think you'd enjoy reading them.
Blessings, Bruce,
George
George
- At 8:10am on February 19, 2009,
George Polley said…
- Hi Bruce,
This is in response to your message to me (couldn't figure out how to respond on the link). I am honored to be asked to serve as a theological consultant to your Aboriginal Theology group, Bruce. Thank you for inviting me. I also recommend Matt Henry, since he seems to be very well-qualified in the CS theology area.
George
- At 1:49am on February 13, 2009,
wendy maclean said…
- Hi Bruce--
I enjoyed evesdropping on your conversation with jason about Progressive Xty.
I am a United CHurch minister in Quebec.
The United CHurch has a deep longing to connect and inspire/support intercultural ministries, from the grass roots.
Here in Quebec we have a huge disconnect between the culture (French, former RCath) and the church. There are so many hard memories, and the younger generation have no memories.
BUT/AND they love the eco-movements and the earth.
I am interested that you refer to the Jesuits--I am working my way through the Exercises, blessed and challenged by the movement of the SPirit, mightily active in our time--
WOW, my dream right ow is to have a CS community here.
Peace
Wendy
- At 3:01pm on February 6, 2009,
George Polley said…
- Hi Bruce,
Welcome to A Gathering Place for Writers. Have fun, contribute what you want, and let's see what we can do. I've just about finished reading Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian", which I really like. It reminds me of some of the papers I've read on Ray Levesque's website. Have you read it?
- At 4:37pm on February 3, 2009,
Mary Plaster, M.A. said… - Hi Bruce, That is great that you want to join Sacred Journey! I'm going to ask you to hold off a couple days while we decide how we are going to proceed. I sort of mocked up the site to show Steve and Sally. Steve should probably moderate and we may have to start completely over for him to do that. We are all busy and haven't gotten it together yet.
Thanks for all you do to keep this place hopping!
Mary
- At 10:44am on January 25, 2009,
Susan Coppage Evans said… - Hi Bruce - I am happy to support your development of a community - it is my greatest hope, that from this networking we can provide places for people to encounter creation centered spirituality. I really encourage you to attend the weeklend event in Asheville in July - and the weeklong course that follows (we are planning on a course taught by Matt Fox on reinventing the Church!) . These gatherings are really a shot in the arm as far as networking to create community!
In the mean time - let me know howI can be of help.
Susan
- At 3:06am on January 16, 2009,
Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer said… - Hi Bruce -- I am an indigenous peoples rights activist. During the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference I met and had an hour long conversation with Matthew Fox. At the time, he asked me to stay in touch with him. He recently gave his support for my effort to change the faulty-translation and profane name of Minnesota's Rum River back to its sacred Dakota Indian name [Wakan].
My website is located at http://www.towahkon.org/Tomssite.html
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