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Oasis: Amazon's new series pilot on Faber's "mundane" depiction of missionary life on another planet

3/20/2017

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Richard Madden as Peter, an Anglican priest sent as a missionary to a near-future outpost on another planet.(Photo Credit: Amazon)
 So I read this intriguing novel last year by Michel Faber entitled The Book of Strange New Things (2014).

Lots of engaging, thought-provoking content for what is (or not) communicated of the gospel into an entirely new world (literally), and when the mystery is ambiguity and how grace is channeled then somehow becomes faith, maybe.

Well, it's now an Amazon Prime series pilot called Oasis.

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"What makes you anxious?": A lesson in what makes a church into a sanctuary

3/18/2017

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I was on a recent road trip and stopped at a great little church off the beaten path. It was when I learned how a little church might become a great sanctuary.
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When church becomes a sanctuary. (It's a personal photo, my brown field jacket hanging on the chair in the bottom left.)
The pastor preached from the Gospel reading for Epiphany 8A:
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?. . . But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today’s trouble is enough for today." (
Matthew 6:25-34 NRSV
At the end of the sermon, the pastor had us take up cards placed on each seat with a small pencil. We were to write down something giving us anxiety in our lives: stress at work, money issues, family situations. Then, we were asked to exchange cards with the person sitting next to us, and then exchange it again, and then move across aisles until we'd exchanged cards six or seven times.

The pastor asked us to pray for the person's anxiety represented on the card we ended up with. As we were called forward to take the Eucharist, we were to place the card in a pile on the altar in the front. To leave the anxiety behind as we left with the symbol of God's grace in us.

Here is what made the person anxious and even scared as it was expressed in writing upon the card that I had in my hands:
To be deported.
To be separated from my family.
Let these brief statements written by a stranger's hand sitting near me in church less than three Sundays ago, sink in.

Lord, have mercy on us.

May those of us called Christian enter true sanctuaries next Sunday, and welcome friends and strangers alike to join us as brothers and sisters.
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