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On Our Way DVD
13 Sessions & Study Guide
Published by The Work of the People and Practicing Our Faith
Now available: Thirteen video conversations about practices belonging to a way of life that is abundant in love, justice, and mercy: Study, Discerning God’s Call, Living as Community, Friendship and Intimacy, Making a Good Living, Care for Creation, Honoring the Body, Singing Our Lives to God, Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths, Peacemaking and Nonviolence, Doing Justice, and Living in the Presence. The DVD includes a Study Guide.
This collection is based in the chapters in On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life, edited by Dorothy C. Bass and Susan R. Briehl, one of several books on Christian practices developed by the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People in Faith.
download study guide (pdf)
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DVD: Care for Creation
Published by The Work of the People and Practicing Our Faith
Ten conversations with Dan Spencer, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Montana and minister of the United Church of Christ
Daily we hear sobering news of global warming and melting glaciers, diminishing energy sources and peak oil use, powerful hurricanes and devastated communities, species extinction and habitat loss. Caring for creation, serving and tending it, and gratefully delighting in its gifts has been an important Christian witness and practice for centuries, but it has taken on a new urgency today as a way of life lived literally for the sake of the life of the world.
Dan Spencer, an ethicist and environmentalist in Montana who sometimes calls himself a "geologian," helps us recognize this practice as one that is grounded in scripture and crucial to faithful living. Through this practice, we honor and respond to God's sacramental presence in the material world, and we grow in love for all of our neighbors, both humankind and otherkind.
This DVD is based on Dan's chapter in On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life, edited by Dorothy C. Bass and Susan R. Briehl. Download a brief PDF study guide on Care for Creation.
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DVD: Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths
Published by The Work of the People and Practicing Our Faith
Seven conversations with Scott Alexander, Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of the Catholic-Muslim Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago
Who is my neighbor? In a time of deep mistrust and fear, ignorance and animosity between peoples of differing religious traditions, Scott invites Christians into the ancient, but often neglected practice of knowing and loving our neighbors of other faiths. Sometimes called interreligious dialogue, this practice is an encounter with people of other faiths which leads to deeper understanding and cooperation. Drawing courage and wisdom from Saint Francis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, we follow Christ in humility and grace across cultural and religious boundaries in ways that engender greater solidarity within the human family and enable us to more fully realize the reign of God on earth. Interreligious dialogue is not only the work of theologians and experts, but the daily vocation of every person who longs to be a loving, faithful neighbor. This conversation is based on his chapter in On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life, edited by Dorothy C. Bass and Susan R. Briehl. Download a brief study guide on Knowing and Loving Our Neighbors of Other Faiths.
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