Of course I had to go. My director and I went, and I'm so glad we did!
About 1/3 of the way into the presentation, I began scribbling madly in my notebook. I'd like to think I was channeling Rachel Corrie. (Only not really, because hers would have had some bizarre drawings all over the margins.)
.JPG)
In case you have trouble deciphering, here are some things I wrote down. And, a little like Rachel, actually, I think I'm just going to leave it a big indecipherable list, and you get to make of it what you will. Muahaha.
Theological Conundrum #675231:
On reading the text
Jewish people
Chosen
Metaphor
West Bank = Swiss cheese
When he was fourteen had a friend - shot by a sniper because he broke three- or four-day curfew to buy bread for family
Threw rocks at soldiers during intifada - not what you did when you were a teenager
Moral
Ethical response
Reconciliation
Demographics
Seclusion & separation
Land of refuge
"the memory of the Jew" ?
guilt/national conscience - let them down
-> hurting new party
old superceding new
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER!
The church in Palestine feels left behind
Counter-Christian
Counter-cultural
Cultural perceptions of God
U.S. in the position -> if we withhold veto on Palestinian statehood or show any support for Palestine, lose alliance w/ Israel
Ends justify the means?
Story about meeting -
No politics, just sharing stories
Political Judaism
Political Islam
Political Christianity
Re: the wall
"It's not an inconvenience. If someone spits in your coffee, that's an inconvenience."
"Prophecy-obsessed"
Social Justice: mainstream/Catholic vs. evangelical
Zionism
Dispensationalism
Using words -> reality
Us vs. Them narrative
Liberation Theology
Palestinian Christian in video - "I'm not persecuted because I am a Christian, I am persecuted because I am Palestinian"
Daniel:
"My only experience of the Israeli is the soldier, not the human. I didn't grow up knowing any Israelis. I think that's the problem with the conflict."
No comments:
Post a Comment