Do you know of any companies that said “sorry” to the public… when they weren’t getting sued for something? For instance, like Microsoft apologizing to the public with a statement “we are sorry for the troubles we’ve caused you,” and then gave you something to prove it… like Windows 7 for free? Not that that’s actually happening- in fact they’re selling Windows 7 for a little cheaper for a limited time, but it wasn’t an apology, it was a sales tactic. How about the government? What would we do if Congress publicly apologized to citizens for misrepresenting them? I wouldn’t know what to do with myself. I probably wouldn’t do anything since it’s still so disconnected with my everyday life, but has it happened? I know they’ve “served us,” but have they ever apologized to us for something they did wrong?
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Organizations and Apologies. Vision Series Part 2
August 15th, 2009 by David Bernheisel
Is Jesus a jerk?
August 11th, 2009 by Celia Bernheisel
Sometimes, it is easy for us to read the Bible through our modern lens and forget that it was written in a very different time than we live in now. The passage found in Mark 7:24-30 is one of those passages that, if we read it without considering the context, we end up thinking that Jesus is a racist jerk. For a long time, I had struggled with this passage and had not read it for awhile until recently. Upon reading it this time, I have come to realize that Jesus is not a jerk at all (not that I had actually ever seriously entertained that thought). Rather, he is a man on a mission of compassion who loves using parables that we sometimes, in all our Western wisdom, fail to understand.
Architectural Theology. Vision Series Part 1
August 10th, 2009 by David Bernheisel
Vision time. When you walk into a church building, do you catch how the atmosphere captures their theology? For instance, the Greek Orthodox church has incredible icons and they emphasize the grandness and majesty of God- through their expensively gold embroidered frames and icons plastered all over the place, with elaborate hand painted murals in the traditional orthodox way (halos around the saints, a slight creepiness about Jesus’ posture, and a little monster dude in the river shrugging “why are you standing like that? that’s wierd.”). The way they design their building indicates what they believe and how they theologize it. Kinda like a motorcyclist- the louder and more obnoxious the “muffler,” the more rebellious and BA the person is. The more gold and grandness- the more they honor and show the glory of God through their architecture.