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Date: 25 March 2009 10:04:14
Active use of my eyes is in short bursts at the moment and I am not even beginning to attempt anything I will need to make notes on at the moment. I have managed to finish of Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope, a book I blogged about back in February when I was about a third of the way through and afraid I would never make it through a fiction book again. The Times review sums it up well.
Listening I have been able to do. I can just lay and absorb what I hear. So far I have worked my way through the lectures from the Carrs Lane Lectures in Radical Christian Faith 2008, aswell as the John Bell talk I linked to yesterday. This is a way of working that is alien to me but I enjoy... there is no note book there ...... I will make notes later........brain is too mashed to get into indepth critiquing of the material as I hear it...... I am simply listening. In this simply listening to it whilst I relax I am finding I am letting it speak to me in ways that I normally can't.
The lecture by Dr. Mukti Barton on "Theology of Those Excluded Because of their Colour" was particularly interesting and challenging and something I would recommend to anybody who wants a good introduction into black theology. What was striking was the way she picked up on the importance of the story of Hagar in Womanist theology. As a single mum this is the most important story in the old testament to me and something I have found liberating . Yet, I hadn't clicked on for what it might mean for black women who read the story from a different angle.
Do need to chill out a bit aswell whilst I rest though, so think I might send Third Party down to the library to see what she can find in the way of talking books.