CC editors are headed to Wild Goose, plus new articles on inclusiveness, Flannery O’Connor, Puerto Rico, and more.
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It’s extra exciting when I can meet our readers and writers in person, and another opportunity is coming up next month at the Wild Goose Festival ([link removed]) in North Carolina. I hope to see not only many CC subscribers, but also some of our writers—like Voices columnist Julian DeShazier ([link removed]) (performing hip-hop as J.Kwest), last year’s annual CC lecturer Brian McLaren, Amy-Jill Levine ([link removed]) , and more! Plus I will be teaming up with fellow CC editor Jessica Mesman ([link removed]) and Queering Contemplation host/author Cassidy Hall ([link removed]) to lead a session on how to get published.
Scroll down for some great new content, like Sam Wells’s reflection on ministry with people moving toward inclusivity ([link removed]) , Kathryn Reklis’s review of a new movie about Flannery O’Connor ([link removed]) , and much more.
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** What does it mean to be an inclusive church? ([link removed])
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“Our congregation gained a good few worshipers from conservative backgrounds who wanted something more inclusive but whose theology hadn’t yet caught up with their ethics. I wanted to give them a dismantling and reconstructing exercise.”
by Sam Wells
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** Genius and virtue ([link removed])
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“The movie weaves scenes from Flannery O’Connor’s fiction seamlessly into the flow of the film. We watch her observe ordinary details of life around her—the way a child makes faces on the bus, the unusual details on someone’s hat—then the scene shifts and we are inside her imagination, one of her stories beginning to take shape.”
by Kathryn Reklis
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** Hair like wool ([link removed])
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“Describing hair as coarse and curly—or wooly—in the tenth century BC was the highest compliment. Hair that is full and textured is attributed not only to God but also to the woman in the Song of Songs.”
by Melissa Burlock
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** In the Lectionary for June 30 (Ordinary 13B) ([link removed])
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Maybe the Song of the Bow is an Iron Age propaganda drop. Or maybe it’s just a song.
by Brad Roth
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** Puerto Rico as both object and subject of mission ([link removed])
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“José David Rodríguez’s book, which is truly the first of its kind, illustrates the unique space Puerto Rico inhabits as a location for colonization.”
review by Clint Schnekloth
** Summer Musings ([link removed])
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“I want to cast away
every instrument of instant answers
to enter mystery ...”
poem by Sally Witt
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