The following comment appeared in the Sojourners sojomail last week. It seems that Ted Kennedy was able to hold together the tension between passion for what he believed in and the maintenance of strong relationships across party lines. This sounds like what we are aiming for in New Thing.
Martin
"[The]... genuine and generous outpouring of love and concern for Sen. Kennedy proves a very important thing. It shows that one can be an advocate, a passionate and relentless champion for clear and controversial causes, and yet still be a bridge-builder, a reconciler, and a seeker of common ground. The conventional wisdom says you must be one or the other, an advocate or a bridge-builder, but never both. Ted Kennedy, once again, proves the conventional wisdom wrong. It is because he is a lawmaker who genuinely wants to get things done, to find real and concrete solutions -- especially for people who really need them. Kennedy is known as a senator who truly wants to be effective and not just right, as so many others, on both sides of the aisle, are too often content to be." [Source Sojomail 22-5-08]
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Behold!
‘When Frank (my husband) and I first got together 14 years ago, his younger daughter Jenny found it very difficult to cope with our relationship. (She was 28 at the time.) She did not come to the ceremony at our wedding, and I was not invited to hers.
Things trundled along, mostly gradually improving, (amazingly, helped indirectly by her mother) as we quietly negotiated together what being stepmother and daughter would look like.
A few years later, her mother died. I did go to her funeral, and spent some time with her in her last days. Jenny and I figured out a bit more what stepmother and stepdaughter might look like. A lot of it revolves around shopping and coffee – both good!
This year on Mother’s Day I found myself wondering what Mother’s Day would be like for Jenny and her older sister, but especially for Jenny who has no children. The next day, in my letterbox was a card ‘Thinking of you on Mother’s Day’ signed, with love, from Jenny.’
Behold, I am doing a New Thing…
Sally Carter
Things trundled along, mostly gradually improving, (amazingly, helped indirectly by her mother) as we quietly negotiated together what being stepmother and daughter would look like.
A few years later, her mother died. I did go to her funeral, and spent some time with her in her last days. Jenny and I figured out a bit more what stepmother and stepdaughter might look like. A lot of it revolves around shopping and coffee – both good!
This year on Mother’s Day I found myself wondering what Mother’s Day would be like for Jenny and her older sister, but especially for Jenny who has no children. The next day, in my letterbox was a card ‘Thinking of you on Mother’s Day’ signed, with love, from Jenny.’
Behold, I am doing a New Thing…
Sally Carter
Welcome
Hi there, I am Martin Stewart, the moderator of the ar-tic-u-la-te blog. Sorry about the name - 'articulate' would have been easier but New Thing does not as yet have an easy sense of itself that can be simply articulated - we're working on it!
Sally Carter and I have set up ar-tic-u-la-te to enable people interested in New Thing to reflect and comment. Once a week a guest will make an offering. You can comment on these offerings or read other people's comments by clicking on the comments heading at the bottom of each offering.
"New Thing" is a group formed after the PCANZ General Assembly 2006 and is an attempt to find new ways of being Church together. Its name comes from Isaiah 42:9 – "See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them."
Following the leadership standards decision of GA06, people holding a wide range of views expressed disquiet over where the Church has found itself after this adversarial and legalistic debate. We believe that there has to be a better way of handling our differences when the matters before us are not of the substance of the faith.
For more details, have a look at http://www.newthing.net.nz/index-new.html
- Sally Carter & Martin Stewart, New Thing co-convenors.
Sally Carter and I have set up ar-tic-u-la-te to enable people interested in New Thing to reflect and comment. Once a week a guest will make an offering. You can comment on these offerings or read other people's comments by clicking on the comments heading at the bottom of each offering.
"New Thing" is a group formed after the PCANZ General Assembly 2006 and is an attempt to find new ways of being Church together. Its name comes from Isaiah 42:9 – "See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them."
Following the leadership standards decision of GA06, people holding a wide range of views expressed disquiet over where the Church has found itself after this adversarial and legalistic debate. We believe that there has to be a better way of handling our differences when the matters before us are not of the substance of the faith.
For more details, have a look at http://www.newthing.net.nz/index-new.html
- Sally Carter & Martin Stewart, New Thing co-convenors.
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