Seine Net is the same reflection series I have been doing on Sundays, just a new name.
I wanted something a little more nautical oriented that also captured (get the pun?) the sense of my grabbing random bits of information to think about. Just as a seine net pulls up all sorts of things, some unexpected, so I think of this reflection post.
If you would like to see a page with the previous reflections you can follow this link.
A Reflection on These Past Few Weeks
I’ve not written a blog post in a bit as I’ve been a little busy with some transitions that are happening. I’ll write a bit more in a different post, but just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge this. This Seine Net is likely to be a little full as I’ve got a collection that has been growing to share with you.
Blessings,
Rev. Joel
The Lectionary Readings for today
Scripture Lessons for this Week: 3rd Sunday After Pentecost:
1 Samuel 15:34- 16:13; Psalm 20; 2 Corinthians 5:6-17; Mark 4:26-34
Reflections on the Scripture
As I have mentioned, two of the books I highly recommend reading during the B Lectionary cycle are Ched Meyers. Binding the Strong Man and Wes Howard-Brooks Becoming Children of God. Both books are well worth checking out and reading closely. Meyers closely examines Mark while Howard-Brooks takes a close look at John.
Where Do We Expect Growth to Occur and Where are We Surprised?
This frankly seems to sum up the Gospel lesson, doesn’t it?
We plant some seeds and then go to bed, only to find them growing when we awake. Ok, so really, we plant some seeds, and then we water them, and wait, and water them, and wait, and water them, and wait … until finally a little green sprout emerges.
When we expect something to happen, do we lose sight of the mystery of the entire process? Can we still be just as excited and surprised and grateful when the growth occurs, even when we expect the outcome? How do we stay connected to the wonder of God at work?
A Reflection on Fairy Tales
I ran across this article (Fairy Tales Could be Older Than You Ever Imagined) a few weeks back. It was looking at how to put a timeline on certain fairy tales as oral history. How far back might they go? How would one track them?
In particular I thought it might be an interesting tid-bit to think about regarding Pentecost and language/culture. How might this impact ways in which we understand (a new?) the ways that the Pentecost experience helps us to communicate with one another?
Reflections for Iconography in an Ancient-Modern Way
This interactive article is aptly named I think: Reading an Ancient Comic Strip. The National Geographic website shows the column commemorating Trojan’s victory over the Dacians depicted spiraling around the 126’ column.
The website allows you to scroll around the column and “read” it like panels in a comic book.
Stained glass windows allowed us to tell stories in similar ways. This might imply that comic books are actually quite ancient.
So how do we tell our stories now?
Speaking of Comics …
Secret history: the warrior women who fought their enslavers explores how the historian Rebecca Hall is working with a graphic artist Hugo Martínez on a book project that brings these powerful women back to life. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts is told in the form of a graphic memoir. “The combination provides a way to look almost simultaneously into the past and the present, which was crucial for this story because it’s about haunting and the relationship between slavery, the United States and the current issues that we have today,” Hall says. “It’s also about growing up in the wake of slavery – which is traumatic.”
A Reflection on Organization
My grandfather used to marvel at one of the secretaries in the insurance office in which he worked. All the receipts were kept in a wooden barrel. If you need to see a receipt after it had been placed in the barrel, you had to ask this particular secretary. She would ask when the receipt was from. Once she had received the date, she would reach her hand into the barrel, rummage around and then pull it out.
For the rest of us mortals, the Filing Cabinet became the lifesaver. This article explores this often-overlooked 20th century infrastructure. I thought you might enjoy it.
Blessed be
Currently I’ve still been reading Cynthia Bourgeault’s, The Wisdom of Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind – A New Perspective on Christ and His Message.
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Ched Myers. Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus.
Wes Howard-Brooks Becoming Children of God
Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
The Wisdom of Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind – A New Perspective on Christ and His Message