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Part 1 - Media Presentation - Jonathan Haidt The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

With or Without God – Gretta Vosper. why the way we live is more important than what we believe Chapter 7 Crucial Change – Fulfilling a Responsibility. Part 1 - Media Presentation - Jonathan Haidt The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

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Part 1 - Media Presentation - Jonathan Haidt The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives

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  1. With or Without God – Gretta Vosper.why the way we live is more important than what we believeChapter 7 Crucial Change – Fulfilling a Responsibility

  2. Part 1 - Media Presentation - Jonathan Haidt The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives Being civil and understanding of others whose morals don’t match ours. TED Talks

  3. With or Without God – Gretta Vosper.why the way we live is more important than what we believe- Part 2 Analysis of Chapter 7 Crucial Change- Fulfilling a Responsibility

  4. Crucial Change • Classically, three characteristics described “the church”: • Leiturgia – Worship • Koinonia – Community • Diaconia – Service • Christians were a community gathered to worship and dispersed to serve others. • Vosper envisages a church centred on “community” with no need for “worship” and “service” becomes by-product.

  5. Crucial Change • What makes Vosper’s community unique? • Advocacy for social justice • Focus on sacred-values & humanitarian/spiritual • Centre for human/institutional transformation • Place of civil conversation about important issues

  6. Crucial Change • Negative “church” words: • Hell, sacrifice, confession, sin, commitment, offerings, holy, Jesus • Positive “church” words: • Caring, sharing, friendship, giving, support, teaching children good values. • (source) United Church of Canada “Emerging Spirit” market research.

  7. Crucial Change • “Re-packaging the church” • Adapting to post-modernism and moving from “as it was” to “riding the cultural wave” • Learn from others: • User-friendly accomodation & technology. • Optional ways to enter, belong and participate • Committees become ministries (and) • Volunteer opportunities matched with spiritual gifts

  8. Crucial Change • Integrity for Liberals • Clean up the hymns! – “If it can’t be said in the pulpit, it shouldn’t be sung in the pew”. • Learn “integrity” from evangelicals! – “Use words we can believe in.” • Don’t leave the church to moderates. – “To mediate is to compromise.”

  9. Crucial Change • The Liberal Inheritance • open to critical scholarship • Don’t separate worship and education • Create post-Christian communities • Discussion, not worship groups

  10. Crucial Change “Church, or whatever it comes to be called, could be a place where we reflect and process our life experiences with others in ways that encourage us to become compassionate, just and loving human beings” (p 311)

  11. Break • Discussion Questions • Discuss Vosper’s comment (p 313) “We who move beyond the traditional boundaries of Christianity are often thought of as not believing in anything.” • Name and discuss “beliefs that divide” and “beliefs that unite”.

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