Seeing-Remembering-Connecting
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This book draws from Bloomquists many years and formative experiences as a pastor, theologian, activist, seminary professor, and speaker in a number of settings--both within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and ecumenically and globally. Drawing insights from many sources, Seeing-Remembering-Connecting proposes a new church in society framework, so that faith communities can engage and transform the urgent systemic injustices confronting us today. This new framework, seeing-remembering-connecting, evokes ordinary practices that can engage those from diverse faith traditions and from no faith tradition, and points to the heart of what churches have long been about: God is becoming manifest in and through what these verbs imply--as transcendently immanent. Seeing-remembering-connecting is nurtured over the long term in faith communities, as they put together what is fragmentary or forgotten, point to what is true, and empower communities to see, remember, and act in organized actions with others--across boundaries of religion, geography, and self-interest.Karen Bloomquist helps churches listen and learn from each other for the sake of the world. A theologian, professor, national and global church leader, she has lived the text. This book is both brilliantly comprehensive and succinct. Seeing those kept invisible by dominating powers, she connects economic disparities, racism, greed, and climate change, all intensified by corporate and political policies. She sees justification and justice intimately connected, and community across boundaries as the heart of the Gospel.--Norma Cook Everist, Professor of Church and Ministry, Wartburg Theological SeminaryA manifesto for a public church to be in and for the world! Combining political and liberation theologies with ecumenical insights and a Lutheran pugnacity, this book transcontextually subverts our seeing, elicits remembering to transfigure our memory, and inspires connecting to bring a
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