A section of my book "Dialogue in Diversity." The first very rough draft is basically complete and will be reviewed by my students in "Interreligious Dialogue class. According to Martin Buber: “The presupposition of genuine dialogue is not that the partners agree beforehand to relativize their own convictions, but that they accept each other as …
Tag: mutuality
Power Without Accountability, Part 3.
My suggestion in the previous two posts is that the church has brought in the Power structures of history and surrounding social structures. Yet the church is meant to be unique in many ways. Among those, we are supposed to turn power upside down. We have trouble with this. I have a(n) FB friend who …
Power Without Accountability, Part 2
We see all of the problems with power in an ecclesiastical (church) setting so a good question would not only be "Why do we have problems with power in the church?" but also "Why do we actively perpetuate power that leads to problems in the church?" Acknowledging lack of extensive expertise in this? I think …