In Class
Instructions
If you were unable to make it in person
Look through the slides for a brief introduction to Liberation Theology and Palestinian Liberation Theology. If you would like to read a brief introduction to PLT follow the link on slide 13. Then, take some time to journal with the following prompts:
- How does Liberation Theologies commitment to action first and reflection second challenge/affirm your own theological practice?
- What passages from your chosen reading stood out to you? Why?
- How do the passages confront Christian Zionism & promote the communal embodiment of the Reign of God?
- What does your chosen reading teach you about the character of God? What does God expect you to say and do about injustice that you see?
Discussion Groups
Forgot to do prework: Sabeel Wave of Prayer
Mild: Open Letter
In 1985, Christians fighting apartheid in South Africa published the Kairos Document. The document sparked intense discussion and debate and pointed a way forward for the church in the struggle against apartheid. In December of 2009, an ecumenical group of Palestinian Christians published the Kairos Palestine Document urging Christians around the world to take up the struggle against Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
On November 1st, Kairos Palestine and Kairos South Africa issued an open letter to churches in the west about the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Medium: Toward a Decolonial Reading of the Bible
In the last chapter of Decolonizing Palestine Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb tackles reading the bible from a decolonial lens. In the excerpt, Raheb reads 1 Kings:21 and Matthew 5:5 to demonstrate a “hermeneutic of Palestinian liberation.”
Spicy: Chosen People?
This excerpt of Decolonizing Palestine includes the last chapter of the book which discusses the problem and possibility of election. It covers the idea of ‘chosen people’ how it presents a problem for Palestinians and what a decolonial understanding of election might look like.
Prayer
Sabeel’s Wave of Prayer is a prayer ministry that enables local and international solidarity. The prayer is used in serivces around the world and during Sabeel’s Thursday Communion service; as each community in its respective time zone lifts these concerns in prayer at noon every Thursday, this “wave of prayer” washes over the world.