![]() ![]() ![]() We’ll look at legal and financial matters, as well as health care directives and funeral arrangements. ![]() Next Tuesday, we’ll begin a two-part series about end-of-life planning that will be held on May 16 and 23. When it came time to plan her funeral, this beloved matriarch had given us a road map. Her mom had been a piano teacher, so her LBW was an obvious place to record her favorite things-hymns, Bible passages and a blessing that had been meaningful to her. Last summer, a member of Bethlehem and I met to plan her mom’s funeral, and she brought along her mom’s LBW (the green hymnal that precedes the red one). We might also ask, what would we like our loved ones to know about what mattered to us in this life? How will we tell them? We know that things will go most smoothly if we make our wishes known ahead of time. Eventually-whether we accumulate more than we need or just the right amount of stuff-the things we have will no longer be useful to us, and someone will need to help empty our nest, perhaps when we are ill or after we have died. It dawns on me that for us humans, we spend the first part of our lives getting ready to leave our parent(s)’ nest, and then we begin to build a nest of our own. With the help of some friendly mice, the bird begins to empty the nest, until eventually it’s just enough. All of it is useful, at least to someone, but it doesn’t take long before the accumulation of things is overwhelming. Pretty soon, there’s a key and a watch and a pearl necklace, a bolt and a stamp and a spool of thread. There’s a marble, and then a coin and a Lego. Springman and Brian Lies, is about a magpie who finds cool stuff and brings it to its nest. One of my favorite children’s books, “More” by I.C. While I know many things about my Norwegian ancestors who came to a particular place in Minnesota 150 years ago, I know very little about the people who preceded them. It was deeply meaningful to be welcomed by people whose families have lived here the longest. We were a diverse group gathered: descendants of enslaved Africans and European immigrants, Asian Americans and Canadian citizens, Indigenous people whose ancestors have lived in this region for thousands of years, and more. Kelly Sherman Conroy (Oglala Lakota) and the Rev. There were wonderful moments throughout the week one of the most memorable was being welcomed to open worship and the communion table by two Native American pastors, Dr. Any individual or group that is convinced of the Kairos concept and accepts the principles of the prophetical obligation of striving against injustice in a non-violent creative resistance form contacts Kairos Palestine and informs of its creation and commitment.Last week, I went to the Festival of Homiletics in downtown Minneapolis, a preaching conference that draws more than a thousand people in-person and almost as many online to hear and learn from some of the best preachers in the country. ![]() Kairos Palestine does not dictate or influence any group to start a movement in another country. Please check out the opportunity to join a movement in your own country/region or to establish a Kairos movement in your own country. Sign the Global Kairos Signature Campaign Join the Global Kairos Network The international movement is dependent on a committee in which Kairos Palestine plays the significant role of facilitating and coordinating the various committee’s tasks of looking at theological and political rhetoric, exchanging information, unifying advocacy strategies and suggesting activities that take into consideration the specificity of each country deriving from the Kairos concept of acting now for justice. Today Kairos movements exist in many countries in the Global South as well as in the Global North. The Bethlehem Call, sent out at the end of the conference reiterated the urgent calls of the Kairos Palestine document “Moment of Truth” and asked for a comprehensive boycott of Israel as one of the non-violent tools to end the Israeli apartheid system. The conference was attended by representatives of churches and institutions from more than twenty countries. The idea respectively vision of “Global Kairos Network” emerged from the Kairos Palestine conference held in Bethlehem in December 2011. ![]()
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