This is a short week for instruction. We will focus on understading the importance of one's worldview, culture, and the circle of faith in action.
Due Dates and Assignments
Week of 2/20
Monday - Off
Tuesday - In class - DUE: Annotated Bibliography submitted through Noodle Tools preferred OR Google Docs Or Word attachemant to my email msims@merion-mercy.com
Wednesday - Theology Department Planning day In-class assignment
Assignment: Using annotated notes as a model , you will read and annotate pages 88 - 96 by Thursday, Feb. 23rd. Brainstorm question #16 (p. 96) with regard to your Praxis Project
Thursday - Unpacking Chapter 3/ Praxis groups
Friday - Unpacking Chapter 3/Praxis groups

What is a WorldView?

Western versus Indigenous worldview - Thoughts?

Thursday

Worldview (continued) & Part I of Analysis (beginning of your notes)

Experience
Culture - refer to notes - Key definition

Blind Spots (social commentary - "21st Century Digital Boy" by Bad Religion)

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN6kCgMUjFw

Seeing the World as Jesus Does

We discussed Jesus' Mission Statement - Luke 4: 16- 21 (Isaiah 58: 5-12) as well as Matthew Chapters 5, 6 & 7 (Sermon on the Mount) & Luke Chapter 6 (Sermon on the Plain). These are some main examples.
The Gospel of Matthew(6:25-34) offers something that many Buddhist fins akin to Siddhartha Gautama

Matthew 6:25 "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?

28 "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
The Gospel of John offers some poignant insights too. For example, John 8: 1- 11- Woman caught in Adultry

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ylFgewaFcM

Answer Garden Code 1 https://answergarden.ch/440275

Answer Garden Code 3: https://answergarden.ch/440276

Answer Garden Code 6:https://answergarden.ch/440277

Two more songs for social commentary - Asking Why & World of Relationships

1. From the Musical "Hair" Easy to Be hard by Three Dog Night