ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life
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Summary of Ordinary Life for April 7, 2024
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Dear Ones -
This week in Ordinary Life I offered a reflection on patience, persistence and endurance as they relate to hope and new life. The talk was/is a serious engagement with the biblical materials about resurrection. It contains a discussion of the Jewish way of creating sacred writing called “midrash.” I also gave an overview of how we got separated from this vitally important way of viewing and understanding our scripture. The question to ask about Easter is not, “Did it happen?” But, rather, “What was there about Jesus that caused him to be incorporated into the Jewish tradition like he was?” I called the talk -
We’ll See
That’s a brief summary of this week’s time in Ordinary Life.
The audio version of the talk has some differences from the text I spoke from. You can find the text of the talk, the presentation slides and the audio version of the talk using the links below.
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Be well and much love,
Bill Kerley
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