Session 3: Don’t you just have a church cause Henry the 8th wanted a divorce?
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Don’t you just have a church cause Henry the 8th wanted a divorce?
Topic: History
Podcast Episode 3 or Chapter, 3 History (pg.5)
Guest: The Rev. Dr. Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski is the Kraft Family Professor and Director of the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. In his free time he enjoys listening to all sorts of music and catching up on back issues of The New Yorker.”
We are a church due to the shifts of history, but we are also a church because of the layers of belief and challenge that surround those facts. This is not a listing of dates and wars and documents finished. Instead Dan offers three ways to think about history:
- It is a story in a context with a multitude of interconnected layers of lives and environment.
- Christian history has always been complex and global, multi-ethnic and multi-racial, spreading far beyond the ‘leadership geography’ in its earliest era.
- Most of history is about the ordinary voices that are often only discovered in material (archeological) evidence. In this there is mystery and confusion and hope and grief, much like our discipleship today.