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Guest Speaker: Christina Bohn - "Space and Place"
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1. Christina taught today about the relationship between place, YHWH, and Israel. She suggested that the land is a co-partner in the covenant between Israel and YHWH, and taught us that part of the significance of the land is that “the land is the place that Israel exists
with
God.”
With that as background, Dr. Bohn asked, “What does it look like to co-partner with the land as Israel did?” She asked what it would be like if we saw the land not as a space to pass through or own, but instead as a place in which to partner with the land and with Israel.
Reflect on these ideas and questions and discuss your thoughts with the group. Have you ever considered the role of the land in the covenant? In the relationship between God’s people and God? How does this idea sit for you? What thoughts does it prompt for you?
2. Christina shared a quote from Willie Jennings: “Owning can never be a way of belonging.”
What’s your initial response to this idea? What surfaces as you consider it specifically related to land?
With the concept of being a “landowner” so prominent in the political and social history of our country, what would it mean to stop thinking of ourselves as potential landowners, and instead as people in covenant relationship with the land?
What does that shift and mean for you or your neighbors, whether your homeowners, renters, experiencing homelessness, or in another situation?
3. Christina also talked about rootlessness and its relationship to space, place, and the land. What does it mean to be rootless?
She shared a quote from Walter Brueggemann: “it is rootlessness, not meaninglessness, that defines us.”
What do you think this quote means? What’s Brueggemann identifying about our experiences in life? How true does it ring for you?
What’s the wisdom to take away from this idea if we’re looking at places in our own life that may feel meaningless? Could the idea of the land and our relationship with it factor in here? If so, how?
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