Anyone interested?
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Saturday, November 11, 2006
Emerging Women's Book Club
I'd like to suggest the creation of an Emerging Women's Book Club -- open to both genders, facilitated by emerging women. I sense the need for a female-oriented structure to keep our thinking and practices fresh and enhanced by scholarship and community, and to provide a venue for reflection that could serve as a rigorous, but more collaborative alternative to the tet-a-tet swordsmen style of debate that tends to prevail almost exclusively in emerging theology spheres dominated by men. Our discussions could include healthy debate and sharpening of each other's ideas, but in a context marked by collaboration, building on each other's thoughts as well as providing thoughtful critiques and further questions, seeking third alternatives, rather than polarization, responses in didactic, as well as story and poetic form, and the welcoming Mystery to the table.
Anyone interested?
Anyone interested?
posted by Jemila Kwon at 1:35 PM
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I would be interested. This a season of re-education for me. I have already walked through seasons like this in regards to education and parenting. Now I find that I need the same in regards to marriage, faith, women/men, church, life! The challenge comes in balancing my study with household chores, chaufferring children, fascilitating their education, and the list goes on and on. I have felt unqualified to "debate" but would love a book discussion.
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At 11/12/2006 02:33:00 PM,
Jemila KwonIf everyone posts there suggestions for books, I'll put them in a hat later this week and let my daughter pick one to get us started. Perhaps we can pass around the "hat" each month if we all keep a list of the book ideas on the table. If anyone has a better idea of how to organize this, let me know! :)
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At 11/13/2006 09:46:00 PM,
Jemila KwonOkay, well it seems there's quite a bit of enthusiasm for Dance of the Dissident Daughter, so let's start with that; it may be healthy for us to begin by airing our struggles with dissidence (and dissonance) as we engage our spirits in active questioning, wrestling and honoring the mystery of God and our unmarked path with Her.
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At 11/13/2006 10:29:00 PM,
NancyI just read "Dance" and was not all that crazy about it but I'm willing to discuss "Why?" when the time comes. Concurrently though, I did create a space for me to discover some of my own "feminine spiritual wounds" and would be willing to talk about that too if anyone was interested in that sort of discussion along with the book.
Jemila, I'm liking that idea. I especially appreciate your interest in avoiding stifling dichotomies/polarities in thought. Good for you! We each have quite a bit to offer one another....different experiences and contexts and learning histories to bring to a review of suggested resources for study. In the end, I'd see that as an amazing help to us all in broadening our potential for appreciating God in all God's diversity and mystery. Thanks for the idea. Now, I need to think about potential suggestions....