Friends, it is time to move beyond our tensions with God and consider some of the tensions we experience with ourselves. There are many, and we could spend an entire season looking into them. But from now until Advent I want to focus on the tensions we experience in our relationship with time and space.
For this week, I want to start with a story in the gospels about two sisters: Martha and Mary. I have come to see their story, and Martha’s dilemma, as indicative of our own time. To do that, we will explore how the acceleration of technology, social change, and the pace of life have coalesced into a unique plague of our time: zeitkrankheit (time, or hurry, sickness).
This feels like an important one to me. I have been chewing on this stuff for quite a while and am excited to dig in. There is a whole lot to discover and unpack along the way.
Pit stops will include a brief history of standardized time, the trickery of time saving apps, why those for and against action to reduce climate change share the same moral framework, and of course, online pornography, the embarrassment of being caught eating nachos and cheese at a pool, email auto responders while you are on vacation, and what smart phones and banana peels have in common. Oh, and some pre-Sunday homework. Watch at least one episode (or season) of The Office before Sunday. Sound good?
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A Burning Bush & The Structure of Self-Doubt (S9 Episode 4)
To look for the Thousandth Time (S9 Episode 3)
Hoist the Jolly Roger (S9 Episode 2)
The Kingdom of God Is Like…A Pirate (S9 Episode 1)
Pick A Plot Line: Part 2 (S8 Episode 37)
Pick A Plot Line: Part 1 (S8 Episode 36)
Huckleberry Finn, Choices & Developing Your Character (S8 Episode 35)
Architecture of Story (S8 Episode 34)
Golf Ball (S8 Episode 33)
Wrestling with Thoughts and Prayers (S8 Episode 32)
Four Things to Wrestle With (S8 Episode 31)
"Let's Get Ready to Rumble" (S8 Episode 30)
An Ugly Love Story (S8 Episode 29)
Life on the Run (S8 Episode 28)
The Wrestler (S8 Episode 27)
In Horus We Trust (S8 Episode 26)
Special Speaker Dawn Hill (S8 Episode 25)
Hornet Nests, Dear Deer, and Pinky Toes (S8 Episode 24)
Embarrassment Whispers (S8 Episode 23)
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