Posts Tagged Multicultural

Boundaries and Borders

I’ve been reflecting on some of the ideas I’ve been learning about in my Ministry Across Cultures class, and also what I just heard in my class about Paul this morning. The dichotomy that has been trying to hold in tension is between boundaries and borders. I think that distinction is an important one in the way we think of ecumenism and multiculturalism.

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A Different Mirror

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I’m going to try to blog all of the little writing assignments I have throughout the semester. In my Ministry Across Cultures class, we’re reading A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki. and have been asked to write a reflection about the first chapter.

Here is the question:
Describe briefly takaki’s frame for what it means to be “American” Using this frame, how might we re-think our idea of what it means to be Lutheran?

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