03/05/17
Psalm 32:1-7
Dr. Christena Cleveland
Dr. Christena Cleveland is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Leadership, Spirituality, and Intercultural Studies at Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC. She is a social psychologist and reconciliation scholar-practitioner who writes and lectures widely on the theology and practice of reconciliation.
In her book, Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart (IVP 2013), she examines and offers research-based strategies to overcome the nonconscious cognitive, emotional, and identity processes that pull Christians into homogeneous groups, fuel inaccurate perceptions of culturally-different others, contribute to an “Us vs. Them” mentality, stimulate intergroup prejudice and hostility, and ultimately inhibit reconciliation. Dr. Cleveland is currently researching and writing The Priesthood of the Privileged, which investigates power and inequality in the church, and proposes methods for addressing and reducing this equality as a pathway to reconciliation.
Scripture:
Songs for Today’s Worship Gathering:
Rise Up by Wardell
Heal Us by Cowper/Twit/Morgan
What Wondrous Love is This by Traditional
Never Once by Redman/Ingram/Wanstall
Have Mercy by McCracken/Cockrell
Up on a Mountain by Aiuto
Doxology
Go further:
Made in Durham (Justin Cook at Bitter Southerner)
Daily Lenten Scripture readings from Lamentations
Rejoicing in Lament: Wrestling with Incurable Cancer and Life in Christ by J. Todd Billings
Disunity in Christ: Uncovering the Hidden Forces that Keep Us Apart by Christena Cleveland
Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda by Emmanuel Katangole
Lamentations and the Tears of the World by Kathleen O’Connor
Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times by Soong Chan Rah
Every Riven Thing: Poems by Christian Wiman
Lent Reading:
God is on the Cross by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sweet Deliverance: A Lenten Reader ed Chris Breslin
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Cross-Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas
God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent & Easter ed Greg Pennoyer
The Seven Last Words from the Cross by Fleming Rutledge
Listening at Golgotha: Jesus’ Words from the Cross by Peter Storey
