Church
I spent most of Sunday with people at church. It was quite good fun. I was hanging out with Rob some locals, and some miscellaneous white people. It was kind of weird. There was a woman who had just got back from Duncan Hospital and then another guy who was off to Duncan Hospital. I had spent a reasonable amount of time in Duncan on my last trip to India.
So anyway I went to the 11am service, went out for lunch, then hung around church until the 5pm service. After that we went out for coffee. It was all good fun. I’ve found a few people with whom I can express my somewhat sarcastic humour with. My views though on church and theology still leave me feeling a little lonely.
I read a bit of a book on “being a woman” and it offended my feministic ideals. I so think that this whole Eve created out of Adam bit from the Bible is taken way too far. I just can’t abide by an argument about a woman’s purpose being to serve a man. I have no problems with a mutual support argument. I almost prefer the Greek myth about how man and a woman used to be formed in one being. Then the god’s were jealous and split them in two.
I am finding sermons here hard to deal with. I really am so in a different place then where most of the sermons are targeting. It’s interesting I have problems culturally and theologically with them as well. I think I want to explore two areas of spirituality. I want to find more on liberation theology and explore more of the mystical side of the Christian walk.
I miss renevore, I’d like to set one up here.. I don’t have enough friends to do that though. I’d like to setup some kind of commie dinner too but I have no stove and no table.
I’m thinking about doing some volunteering in a children’s slum project. I feel like it might be a practical way of addressing some of the issues I face living here. I feel that I should do something to help. So I think I’ll knock on a few doors and see if they open. Though I am a bit unsure if I really have enough time to be of any use.
Not much else to report really. Life is going well. I miss people from back home.
April 4th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
oh, dear…
so much to comment on, but really i just want to know if it’s okay if i put a link to your blog on my blog…
let me know.
April 6th, 2006 at 11:27 am
it’s not the church that meets in the 5 star hotel is it? is it the one that we went too? not that i remember that one very well. just that it was in an auditorium and it was mostly white people. i think it was the one the lanes went to.
i don’t know what to say about the book about being a woman. other than that women are to serve us. though the flip side of that is that we are to love and serve them as well.
June 26th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Here is a thought…
What if it wasn’t just that Eve was taken out of Adam, but rather that Eve is a part of Adam that is now missing from Adam?
We all recognize that God has characteristics that we would consider ‘masculine’ and those that we would consider ‘feminine.’ Adam was made in His image. Then Adam and Eve were in His image. Perhaps in Adam there was the complete package, and then God took half of it to make Eve. The ‘feminine’ half (of course, it wouldn’t be ‘feminine’ until He made Eve).
This would help to better explain Adam’s reaction to his first viewing of His new bride! He recognized that some of his very being was taken from Him and made into another person. It would be like God taking your sense of humor from you, using it to create someone else, and then making the two of you best friends. If you wanted to enjoy your sense of humor, you had to do it ‘through’ them…
And if I know anything at all about Hebrew (which I don’t at all, I just was told this by someon) then the word translated ‘rib’ is a little ambiguous as to its literal meaning…