Video of the Sudbury Voices Event

19 Jun 2013

This is a video that was taken of me speaking at the Sudbury Voices event, put on by the Sudbury Grassroots Media Coop. I was asked to speak about values I’d like to see more of within our community.

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Christy's Houseful of Chaos

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I have a chapter in my Secular Bible Study about the book of Revelations. I’m fascinated how people interpreted the book in so many different ways, and how that influenced their political goals. I grew up in the United Church of Canada, which was born out of the Social Gospel Movement. The Social Gospel Movement urged that humans were supposed to create God’s kingdom here on Earth through working for social justice. When Social Gospelers talk about Jesus returning to earth, they tend to envision it happening after humans have perfected it. This is called post-millennialism, because it interprets Jesus as coming after a millennium of peace mentioned in Revelations.Some Christians are premillennialists. Premillennialists believe Jesus will return BEFORE the millennium of peace. Often they envision it as happening in a time of war and disaster. Premillennialist politicians scare me, because they have incentive to promote policies that might lead to war, particularly war in the Middle East, because they see those wars as inevitable and leading to a good thing in the end.I wrote my Secular Bible Study because I think Biblical literacy is important because it helps us understand where others are coming from. How do religious beliefs influence political beliefs? How do some contested Bible passages lead to very different beliefs?Here are my affiliate links for Bookshop and Amazon. I do encourage people to shop at Bookshop because it supports independent bookstores, but I know sometimes people don’t have that option.bookshop.org/a/3749/9781777168506amzn.to/3axIGOp The picture is from Wikimedia Commons and is listed as having been painted by V.M.Vasnetsov in 1887. ... See MoreSee Less

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Christy's Houseful of Chaos

2 days ago

I was re-watching the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet. They cut a few too many lines, but it is still a great movie. These lines caught my attention:"See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.And I for winking at your discords tooHave lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd."I find myself thinking about that phrase "winking at your discords." The prince takes responsibility for not having done enough to stop the feud. I find myself thinking about the things I have been winking at, allowing to happen and therefore sharing guilt in. ... See MoreSee Less

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Christy's Houseful of Chaos

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An Outschool teacher, Shae Pepper, has just started a podcast about teens that travel. Check it out! ... See MoreSee Less

Podcast - The Traveling Teach

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For Traveling Teens Episode 1: Nate, US Road Tripping, Austria & More In this first episode of For Traveling Teens, Shae Pepper “The Traveling Teach,” chats with Nate (age 14) about his travel around the US by RV and his dreams of visiting Austria. Find out his best and worst travel memories and...

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Christy's Houseful of Chaos

3 days ago

We went out walking on a lake yesterday. The kids took turns pulling one another on the sled. One of my sons noticed that there were tiny insects everywhere in the snow. They would crawl around and bury themselves. It was really neat to see. ... See MoreSee Less

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Christy's Houseful of Chaos

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I'm reading the book Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition. I've only just started. I'm not very far along, but I'm enjoying the book for several reasons.The first reason I'm enjoying the book is that it starts out with a chapter it calls a "descriptive glossary" which goes through and outlines the categories it uses for looking for at death rituals and practices. I like categorization. I like the ideas that categorization makes visible. In this case, it makes visible that some rituals and practices relating to death imply a belief in an afterlife, some don't. Some see the dead as more powerful than the living, while others see the dead as less powerful. Some envision the dead connecting with only their relatives while others don't imply a relevance to genetic connections. Some rituals are related to particular situations (as soon as one dies, or at set times after). Now I can take the categorization and apply it to other myths and practices.Another reason I'm enjoying the book is that it brings up all sorts of other Middle Eastern texts and references to languages I've been reading about elsewhere. One of my kids has done some reading about Mesopotamian demons, and so we can compare what he knows with what I'm reading. Mesopotamian demons appear in some of the computer games and fantasy stuff. ... See MoreSee Less

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