On Mar 23, 2006, at 1:58 AM, Charlie Bell wrote:
On Mar 23, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Dave Land wrote:
As long as we're slinging lyrics around, a friend sent me the
following poem.
I wish some of the fundies I've been dealing with recently thought
that way... :-)
I've been facilitating a class on "Liberal Christianity" for the past
three months or so, and one of the gripes we've all had with the
material is its "us vs. them" stance: the fundies are bad and we are
good. That's not the language I hear in Angelou's poem, either. I
think the trick is to stop talking about how much better the way "we"
believe is than the way "they" believe (from both sides of the fence)
and simply (and beautifully, in Angelou's voice) assert what we
believe to be goodness.
Her poem is so honest and humble. It sounds like Jesus to me.
Dave
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