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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Of Place and Prison (S11 Episode25)
A Modest Proposal for Ending the Marriage Wars (S11 Episode 24)
Death of the Couple (S11 Episode23)
Questions of Marriage (S11 Episode22)
Howling: When God, Wolves & Humans Laugh (S11 Episode21)
Tongues of Fire (S11 Episode20)
The Girls with the Red Balloon (S11 Episode19)
A Failure of Imagination (S11 Episode18)
Pablo Escobar's Hippopotamuses (S11 Episode17)
What We Have Lost (S11 Episode16)
Of Caves and Christmas (S11 Episode15) CHRISTMAS EVE
Shock & Awe (S11 Episode14)
Home But Never Home (S11 Episode13)
Wilderness Exile (S11 Episode12)
Life in Exile (S11 Episode11)
Strengthening our Eyes - Part 2 (S11 Episode10)
Strengthening Our Eyes (S11 Episode9)
Your Own Personal Jesus (S11 Episode8)
Vision Over Visibility (S11 Episode7)
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