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Parker Palmer quote “To sit in a class where the teacher stuffs our minds with information, organizes it with finality, insists on having the answers while being utterly uninterested in our views, and forces us into a grim competition for grades – to sit in such a class is to experience a lack of space for learning. “But to study with a teacher who not only speaks but listens, who not only gives answers but asks questions and welcomes our insights, who provides information and theories that do not close doors but open new ones, who encourages students to help each other learn – to study with such a teacher is to know the power of a learning space.” To Know as We are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey, Parker Palmer (71) Review

Theology and Exegesis –John Franke’s working definition of theology (The Character of Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.) "Christian theology is an ongoing, second-order, contextual discipline that engages in the task of critical and constructive reflection on the beliefs and practices of the Christian church for the purpose of assisting the community of Christ's followers in their missional vocation to live as the people of God in the particular social-historical context in which they are situated." (44) Review

Theology and Exegesis –W. Randolph Tate’s use of Paul Ricoeur’s three step process of interpreting a text World behind the text World in the text World in front of the text Review

Student Research Review

Lectio Devina: Luke 10:25-37 –Lectio – reading and listening; read the passage out loud and silently several times listening for key words or phrase; be sensitive to the moving of the Spirit. –Meditatio – meditation; “chew on” the word or phrase that God has brought to mind; memorize it, listen to it, let it interact with your own personal context. –Oratio – prayer; pray through the passage God has given you; offer it along with your situation to him. –Contemplatio – contemplation; rest in silence in the presence of God; this is very difficult for those who are uncomfortable with silence and not “doing” anything. Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

Reflections on the Good Samaritan Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

U2 functions as a Good Samaritan for me –Not in the traditional sense of helping the poor, though they also do that. –They stand outside my community of religious leaders, pastors and experts and shock me with a different perspective. They shock me with lyrics. Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

“Yahweh” from Bomb Take these hands, Teach them what to carry Take these hands, Don’t make a fist Take this mouth, So quick to criticize Take this mouth, Give it a kiss Yahweh, Yahweh Always pain before a child is born Yahweh, Yahweh Still I’m waiting for the dawn

Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan “If God Will Send His Angels” from Pop Jesus never let me down You know Jesus used to show me the score. Then they put Jesus in show business Now it's hard to get in the door. Hey, if God will send his angels And if God will send a sign And if God will send his angels Would everything be alright?

Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan “Wake Up Dead Man” from Pop Jesus, Jesus help me, I'm alone in this world And a fucked-up world it is too. Tell me, tell me the story, The one about And the way it's all gonna be. Wake up, wake up dead man Wake up, wake up dead man.

U2 functions as a Good Samaritan for me –Not in the traditional sense of helping the poor, though they also do that. –They stand outside my community of religious leaders, pastors and experts and shock me with a different perspective. They shock me with lyrics. They shock me with words (usually Bono). Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

"...I genuinely believe that second only to personal redemption, the most important thing in the Scriptures — 2,103 passages in all — refers to taking care of the world's poor." Bono, L.A.Times, April 4, 2005

Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan … in 1997, a couple of eccentric, septuagenarian British Christians went and ruined my shtick—my reproachfulness. They did it by describing the Millennium, the year 2000, as a Jubilee year, as an opportunity to cancel the chronic debts of the world's poorest people. They had the audacity to renew the Lord's call.... ‘Jubilee'—why ‘Jubilee'? What was this year of Jubilee, this year of our Lords favor? I'd always read the Scriptures, even the obscure stuff. There it was in Leviticus (25:35)…

Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan ‘If your brother becomes poor,' the Scriptures say, ‘and cannot maintain himself… you shall maintain him… You shall not lend him your money at interest, not give him your food for profit.' It is such an important idea, Jubilee, that Jesus begins his ministry with this. Jesus is a young man, he's met with the rabbis, impressed everyone, people are talking. The elders say, he's a clever guy, this Jesus, but he hasn't done much… yet. He hasn't spoken in public before… When he does, is first words are from Isaiah: ‘The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,' he says, ‘because He has anointed me to preach good news to the poor.' And Jesus proclaims the year of the Lord's favor, the year of Jubilee. (Luke 4:18) National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 2006

U2 functions as a Good Samaritan for me –Not in the traditional sense of helping the poor, though they also do that. –They stand outside my community of religious leaders, pastors and experts and shock me with a different perspective. They shock me with lyrics. They shock me with words (usually Bono). They shock me with actions. Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

U2 functions as a Good Samaritan for me –Not in the traditional sense of helping the poor, though they also do that. –They stand outside my community of religious leaders, pastors and experts and shock me with a different perspective. They shock me with lyrics. They shock me with words (usually Bono). They shock me with actions. – Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

As real as the road the Jewish man was beaten on, I am laying on a road of –religiousity: established norms and traditions for encountering God –pretense: thinking I know everything there is to know about God and presuming to speak for him –and arrogance: believing that others should believe the way I believe and should act the way I act Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

U2 brings me awareness of these things in my own life. –“What is the hardest thing to teach a fish?” Answer: water. –I need someone to teach me about the water I swim in. U2 does this for me. Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan

Ask yourself, “Who is my Good Samaritan?” –How might U2 challenge your understandings and frameworks? –Who would be the most unlikely person to deliver God’s message? –Who might repulse you and yet surprise you by offering helping hand (either literal or metaphorical)? My hope is that U2 will reach out a helping hand in surprising ways, make us uncomfortable, and reveal something to us about ourselves that we didn’t previously know. Why Study U2? Reflections on the Good Samaritan