I noted what might be a missed word following the story that the Bishop told about the pastor in Africa. You pointed out that this was a small town, so that people could just mill about pretending that nothing had happened. I have a hunch that you intended to write that people could NOT just mill about pretending that nothing had happened.
Beyond that, this Servant Leadership/Wounded Healer life can tug our gut (never noticed the palindrome before). Years ago, Paul Mickey taught a course at Duke called 'Power and Restraint in the Parish'. It turned out to be a lot of Process Theology. I had had (not a typo) high hopes.
You are, of course, aware that, in another place, in another Gospel, the onus is on the other side of the equation. First we are told that if we are the one who wounded, we have to go and straighten it out. Then we are told that if we are the wounded party, we have to go and straighten it out. It seems to me that this means it is so important to get the reconciliation done, that both parties are enjoined to initiate it. (we may even be Surprised By Joy (or something) in the Process, when we find that we might have reckoned the whole thing wrong)
Thank you for that.
I noted what might be a missed word following the story that the Bishop told about the pastor in Africa. You pointed out that this was a small town, so that people could just mill about pretending that nothing had happened. I have a hunch that you intended to write that people could NOT just mill about pretending that nothing had happened.
Beyond that, this Servant Leadership/Wounded Healer life can tug our gut (never noticed the palindrome before). Years ago, Paul Mickey taught a course at Duke called 'Power and Restraint in the Parish'. It turned out to be a lot of Process Theology. I had had (not a typo) high hopes.
You are, of course, aware that, in another place, in another Gospel, the onus is on the other side of the equation. First we are told that if we are the one who wounded, we have to go and straighten it out. Then we are told that if we are the wounded party, we have to go and straighten it out. It seems to me that this means it is so important to get the reconciliation done, that both parties are enjoined to initiate it. (we may even be Surprised By Joy (or something) in the Process, when we find that we might have reckoned the whole thing wrong)
thanks again