ORDINARY LIFE - Thoughts and Ideas to Help You Live a Happier Life

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Summary of Ordinary Life for November 24, 2024

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Dear Ones -

I called the teaching I offered this week in Ordinary Life -

“Relevant and Prophetic”

The theologian Karl Barth, who influenced an entire generation of preachers and theology teachers, once advised, “Preach with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”

When Barth said this, the understanding people had of the Bible was that which was influenced by the scholarship that was coming out of Germany at the time. And, when he used the word “newspaper,” there was no such thing as the internet and social media. His advice, taken seriously today is problematic because of so many diverse understandings about the Bible and, also, the diversity of places where people get their “news.”

Using a parable from the early Jesus movement about Jesus walking on water, I seek not only to interpret that story but also to find the relevance it has for our time.

In the teaching I mention an interview I saw with presidential historian Jon Meacham on the PBS program “Firing Line.” A link to that program and to the transcript of the program can be found on the Ordinary Life website.

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Be well and much love,

Bill Kerley

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