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Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes us stems from the larger social maladies at work in our lives. This unprecedented gathering of two dozen essays discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent within the church and society in an effort to broaden and inform pastoral caregivers with the knowledge and the skills needed to respond effectively to oppressed and marginalized persons. The volume also helps pastors to reflect on the ways their own social location has an impact on their ministries and to gain familiarity with resources available to support pastoral caregivers in a variety of contexts. --
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Fortress Press (2009), Edition: 5.2.2009, 352 pages
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LibraryThing member keylawk
Those who seek to recover from oppression or care for those who are unable to, can turn to this collection of fact-based calls. They call for action.
Blaine-Wallace piece on "Lamentation as Justice Making". He notes that depression requires isolation, while sorrow seeks communion. He condemns the
As America was led by the greed of its leadership into two Wars, and witnessed its Pentagon under-reporting and even hiding the casualties, he asks: "Who has the presence of heart [!] to establish a community for broken and bound-up hearts?" [185] The tears speak, who listens?
He diagnoses a society curious about the Superbowl, "while Pennsylvania Avenue has its hand deep in the cookie jar of our future, eyeing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks" that our elders were proud of providing as their legacy of work in the mills. "...Society has calcified sadness, leaving us as the living dead". [185].
"Shared suffering is doxological." [186] I respectfully disagree until Cheney is in jail and his estate disgorges the no-bid no-accounting war-profiteering of Haliburton. But I appreciate Blaine-Wallace's view of the trifecta of the Eucharist, an open wound in three acts: wailing, lamenting, rejoicing. We must be dangerous to the plutocracy to be so bent on pouring grief upon the poor. The grief is now political. The billionaires who stole our public resources and then Our Government must be set aside.
The articles are well-written, based on facts not faux fear-mongering, and well-chosen to address the injustices which must be and can be prevented before they occur, and redressed after.
Blaine-Wallace piece on "Lamentation as Justice Making". He notes that depression requires isolation, while sorrow seeks communion. He condemns the
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United States where a "culture" pretends that the individual is sacrosanct and makes the illusion of self-sufficiency an eschatological aim. He asks hard questions. As America was led by the greed of its leadership into two Wars, and witnessed its Pentagon under-reporting and even hiding the casualties, he asks: "Who has the presence of heart [!] to establish a community for broken and bound-up hearts?" [185] The tears speak, who listens?
He diagnoses a society curious about the Superbowl, "while Pennsylvania Avenue has its hand deep in the cookie jar of our future, eyeing Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks" that our elders were proud of providing as their legacy of work in the mills. "...Society has calcified sadness, leaving us as the living dead". [185].
"Shared suffering is doxological." [186] I respectfully disagree until Cheney is in jail and his estate disgorges the no-bid no-accounting war-profiteering of Haliburton. But I appreciate Blaine-Wallace's view of the trifecta of the Eucharist, an open wound in three acts: wailing, lamenting, rejoicing. We must be dangerous to the plutocracy to be so bent on pouring grief upon the poor. The grief is now political. The billionaires who stole our public resources and then Our Government must be set aside.
The articles are well-written, based on facts not faux fear-mongering, and well-chosen to address the injustices which must be and can be prevented before they occur, and redressed after.
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E > Social Justice
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English
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352 p.; 9 inches
ISBN
0800662350 / 9780800662356