Worship Weblog
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
‘Christ Plays’ 26-39
From our staff discussion of Eugene Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places:
I foisted on an unsuspecting staff a printout of an online lexicon listing for nephesh, which shows the diversity of the word’s definition (“soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion”) and OT use (more here). Peterson notes that “nephesh” means neck, and that “soul” is a fitting metaphor for the word, since the neck connects the mind and body. I suggested that when we say “I feel it in my soul,” we should gesture not to our heart, but to our neck. Here’s Peterson, in the most eloquent tribute to the neck I’ve ever read:
Interdisciplinary Application • Language • Reading • (2) Comments • Permalink
Christian Churches Together Launch Postponed
This just in:
Black Church Indifference Postpones Launch of Christian Churches Together
Some question whether another ecumenical group is necessary.
By Kevin Eckstrom, Religion News Service | posted 06/08/2005 09:30 a.m.A new group that aims to bring U.S. Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant Christians together for the first time has been postponed because the effort has received little interest from black churches, leaders said.
The fledgling group, Christian Churches Together in the USA (CCT), has struggled to recruit historically black churches, who have been skeptical that their issues would be addressed in another ecumenical group.
At a meeting last week (June 1-3) in Los Altos, Calif., 67 leaders from some 31 church bodies decided to postpone a formal launch that was scheduled for September to allow more “productive and positive conversation” with churches that have not yet joined.
Leadership • News • Worshipping Communities • (0) Comments • (0) Trackbacks • Permalink