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Narrative Me-Search Analysis Worksheet

The purpose of this exercise is to reflect and explore how our beliefs and narratives about creed, culture, and country shape how we live out our identity at home, school, church, and in our neighborhood. Please describe and explain each context using concrete, specific examples.

When completed, this Worksheet should be about 3.5–4 pages long total (single-spaced), with your reflections entered directly under each section’s prompts and instructions. Submit the completed worksheet on the course site.

Introduction

What would you like to learn about being you from this project and course, specifically your religious (creed), ethnicity (country), and cultural identity (mono/inter)? Summarize your current perspective on religious, ethnic, and cultural identity in your own voice. What questions do you have about religion, ethnicity, and cultural identity? What information do you need to understand religious, ethnic, and cultural identity? (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

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Earliest Memories of religious, ethnic, and cultural beliefs?

Think back to the earliest times you realized you had a religious, ethnic, and cultural beliefs. It’s okay if you don’t remember all the exact details. Describe as much as you can about that experience here. (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

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What did the experience detailed above teach you to think about your own contextual and cultural self? What does it mean to be a cultural/religious person in your everyday life — what are you unsure of? What are you clear about? (2-3 paragraphs; 15 points)

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Identity Socialization

In your family, what were the stories, myths, stereotypes that you grew up with about religion, race, and nationality? What role did you think these stories, myths, stereotypes, assumptions, and thinking about culture, nationality, race, and religion played in your personal and group identity? Thinking about the earliest memories of realizing you had a religious, racial, or national/ethnic identity, write about the feelings you have as you remember this experience. (3-4 paragraphs; 20 points)

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Identity Re-Socialization

Growing up in school, church, or other socio-cultural situations, what are the significant learnings you have gained from your relationships with friends and others that have challenged what you learned at home about your religious, racial, ethnic, or cultural identity? (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

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What is the emotional cost of being under- or miseducated about religion, ethnicity, and culture? Explain what role people from diverse religious or ethnic backgrounds have in shaping your identity and mindset about culture (2-3 paragraphs; 15 points)

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A Cultural Body Living in a Society of Difference, Diversity, and Globalization

Think about what is happening in national and global society recently, (i.e. migration, policing or court outcomes, Black Lives Matter, international and domestic conflicts, economic scarcity and disparity, climate threats, etc.) Additionally, if possible, reflect on any experiences you have had travelling outside of your home nation or culture. What is it like representing a category associated with your body in a racialized and global society? (2-3 Paragraphs; 15 points)

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Conclusion

Summarize your main points briefly, echo the introduction, and make recommendations for yourself: How are you going to think differently about who you are as a human being? (1 paragraph; 5 points)

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ReflectionJournalexegete5.docx

Reflection Journal

Completion requirements

Specific Week 5 Instructions

Exegete (i.e., critically interpret) your church (or a church you know well).

· What are its demographics, power dynamics, and how well does it align with its neighborhood and context?

· What sources and voices influence preaching, teaching, and leadership?

· What sort of impact or power does the congregation pursue?

· Who belongs and who may not? How can you tell?

· To whom does the church belong, and how can you tell?

· Which comes first in the church: Belonging, Behaving, or Believing?

Overall Instructions

Each week, submit a 1–2-page written journal that invites you to reflect on contexts and cultures within which you live and may one day do ministry, along with guided topical reflections. Make connections between each topic and the readings, videos, and discussions in the course. Your journal each week invites you into observational reflection. Using specific examples to support your reflection as much as possible, explore, examine, and ultimately exegete your perspectives, assumptions, influences, experiences, questions, reactions, and growth as you engage perspectives and stories of others who are both similar and different from you. Each week’s journal asks you to exegete (that is, expound and interpret) aspects of your context, similar to how you would exegete Scripture. The following questions can further guide your observations and interpretation each week:

1. What have I learned during readings, learning exercises, and efforts to hold tension between ideas in this course?

2. What stands out to me as I exegete my world, my influences, my church, my library, and my own formation?

3. What do I find challenging, uncomfortable, or unresolved?

4. How am I choosing to adapt to new experiences or information?

5. What am I feeling about opportunities for growth, change, and my own calling to ministry in a globalized world?

HowdopowerCHRIST.docx

How do power, belonging, and change impact the body of Christ?

Completion requirements

Purpose

How do diverse faith practices and worship help us understand and achieve God's (and our) mission in the arena of a globalized world? How do church practices and decisions help or hinder various congregants’ sense of belonging?

The purpose of this discussion is not to help put knowledge in your head but to invite you to a gave of mindfulness. What do you know or not yet understand? What would you like to find out more about?

Instructions

· In your initial post, use approximately 250 words and include at least one specific citation in order to receive full credit.

· In your replies, include scholarly questions, additional examples or counterexamples, and/or additional connections to assigned course materials (readings/videos). Include at least one of the following:

· How does their response challenge or influence you?

· Do you think differently about something that they said? Respectfully explain with an example or counterexample they can consider.

· What questions do their ideas raise in your mind?

Questions

Before responding, review Chapter 7: Van Opstal—Guess who's coming to dinner? (19 pages) and the Video: Sandra Van Opstal: Diverse Worship (5:41).

Respond to one of the following sets of questions in your initial post.

1. What power dynamics exists in today’s Christianity? Where have you seen examples of "empire Christianity" and how do they relate to (or hinder) the mission of God (i.e. Are megachurch, franchise/campus, or growth-oriented church structures empire-building or colonial?) How do mindsets such as "Christian supremacy" or "Christian nationalism" understand what it means to be "chosen"?

2. Van Opstal uses some examples of monocultural influence to explain issues and conflicts for majority cultural churches. What are your experiences with similar examples, and have you observed additional examples of monocultural influence on Christian practices and sense of belonging in churches?

1. How do uses of power in the church (such as decisions about practices/style/authority/unspoken rules) impact various congregants (especially those who may or may not belong to the majority culture in a larger context)? As we collaborate to be a healthy representation of the body of Christ, what responsibilities do we have to one another, especially in terms of power, influence, and belonging?

3. Nearly all people dislike change, but why do you think we dislike change? Is it something within us like the Sin Nature? Or is it due to how we were raised? To what extent is society or the individual responsible for aversion to or openness to change?

1. Van Opstal presents three points on how to navigate creating change in worship settings. How well have you seen those ideas implemented? What other learning points would you offer to foster healthy change and openness toward change?

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NarrativeMeSearchAnalysisWorksheet2.docx

Narrative Me-Search Analysis Worksheet

The purpose of this exercise is to reflect and explore how our beliefs and narratives about creed, culture, and country shape how we live out our identity at home, school, church, and in our neighborhood. Please describe and explain each context using concrete, specific examples.

When completed, this Worksheet should be about 3.5–4 pages long total (single-spaced), with your reflections entered directly under each section’s prompts and instructions. Submit the completed worksheet on the course site.

Introduction

What would you like to learn about being you from this project and course, specifically your religious (creed), ethnicity (country), and cultural identity (mono/inter)? Summarize your current perspective on religious, ethnic, and cultural identity in your own voice. What questions do you have about religion, ethnicity, and cultural identity? What information do you need to understand religious, ethnic, and cultural identity? (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

[Input response here]

Earliest Memories of religious, ethnic, and cultural beliefs?

Think back to the earliest times you realized you had a religious, ethnic, and cultural beliefs. It’s okay if you don’t remember all the exact details. Describe as much as you can about that experience here. (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

[Input response here]

What did the experience detailed above teach you to think about your own contextual and cultural self? What does it mean to be a cultural/religious person in your everyday life — what are you unsure of? What are you clear about? (2-3 paragraphs; 15 points)

[Input response here]

Identity Socialization

In your family, what were the stories, myths, stereotypes that you grew up with about religion, race, and nationality? What role did you think these stories, myths, stereotypes, assumptions, and thinking about culture, nationality, race, and religion played in your personal and group identity? Thinking about the earliest memories of realizing you had a religious, racial, or national/ethnic identity, write about the feelings you have as you remember this experience. (3-4 paragraphs; 20 points)

[Input response here]

Identity Re-Socialization

Growing up in school, church, or other socio-cultural situations, what are the significant learnings you have gained from your relationships with friends and others that have challenged what you learned at home about your religious, racial, ethnic, or cultural identity? (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

[Input response here]

What is the emotional cost of being under- or miseducated about religion, ethnicity, and culture? Explain what role people from diverse religious or ethnic backgrounds have in shaping your identity and mindset about culture (2-3 paragraphs; 15 points)

[Input response here]

A Cultural Body Living in a Society of Difference, Diversity, and Globalization

Think about what is happening in national and global society recently, (i.e. migration, policing or court outcomes, Black Lives Matter, international and domestic conflicts, economic scarcity and disparity, climate threats, etc.) Additionally, if possible, reflect on any experiences you have had travelling outside of your home nation or culture. What is it like representing a category associated with your body in a racialized and global society? (2-3 Paragraphs; 15 points)

[Input response here]

Conclusion

Summarize your main points briefly, echo the introduction, and make recommendations for yourself: How are you going to think differently about who you are as a human being? (1 paragraph; 5 points)

[Input response here]

ReflectionJournalexegete5.docx

Reflection Journal

Completion requirements

Specific Week 5 Instructions

Exegete (i.e., critically interpret) your church (or a church you know well).

· What are its demographics, power dynamics, and how well does it align with its neighborhood and context?

· What sources and voices influence preaching, teaching, and leadership?

· What sort of impact or power does the congregation pursue?

· Who belongs and who may not? How can you tell?

· To whom does the church belong, and how can you tell?

· Which comes first in the church: Belonging, Behaving, or Believing?

Overall Instructions

Each week, submit a 1–2-page written journal that invites you to reflect on contexts and cultures within which you live and may one day do ministry, along with guided topical reflections. Make connections between each topic and the readings, videos, and discussions in the course. Your journal each week invites you into observational reflection. Using specific examples to support your reflection as much as possible, explore, examine, and ultimately exegete your perspectives, assumptions, influences, experiences, questions, reactions, and growth as you engage perspectives and stories of others who are both similar and different from you. Each week’s journal asks you to exegete (that is, expound and interpret) aspects of your context, similar to how you would exegete Scripture. The following questions can further guide your observations and interpretation each week:

1. What have I learned during readings, learning exercises, and efforts to hold tension between ideas in this course?

2. What stands out to me as I exegete my world, my influences, my church, my library, and my own formation?

3. What do I find challenging, uncomfortable, or unresolved?

4. How am I choosing to adapt to new experiences or information?

5. What am I feeling about opportunities for growth, change, and my own calling to ministry in a globalized world?

HowdopowerCHRIST.docx

How do power, belonging, and change impact the body of Christ?

Completion requirements

Purpose

How do diverse faith practices and worship help us understand and achieve God's (and our) mission in the arena of a globalized world? How do church practices and decisions help or hinder various congregants’ sense of belonging?

The purpose of this discussion is not to help put knowledge in your head but to invite you to a gave of mindfulness. What do you know or not yet understand? What would you like to find out more about?

Instructions

· In your initial post, use approximately 250 words and include at least one specific citation in order to receive full credit.

· In your replies, include scholarly questions, additional examples or counterexamples, and/or additional connections to assigned course materials (readings/videos). Include at least one of the following:

· How does their response challenge or influence you?

· Do you think differently about something that they said? Respectfully explain with an example or counterexample they can consider.

· What questions do their ideas raise in your mind?

Questions

Before responding, review Chapter 7: Van Opstal—Guess who's coming to dinner? (19 pages) and the Video: Sandra Van Opstal: Diverse Worship (5:41).

Respond to one of the following sets of questions in your initial post.

1. What power dynamics exists in today’s Christianity? Where have you seen examples of "empire Christianity" and how do they relate to (or hinder) the mission of God (i.e. Are megachurch, franchise/campus, or growth-oriented church structures empire-building or colonial?) How do mindsets such as "Christian supremacy" or "Christian nationalism" understand what it means to be "chosen"?

2. Van Opstal uses some examples of monocultural influence to explain issues and conflicts for majority cultural churches. What are your experiences with similar examples, and have you observed additional examples of monocultural influence on Christian practices and sense of belonging in churches?

1. How do uses of power in the church (such as decisions about practices/style/authority/unspoken rules) impact various congregants (especially those who may or may not belong to the majority culture in a larger context)? As we collaborate to be a healthy representation of the body of Christ, what responsibilities do we have to one another, especially in terms of power, influence, and belonging?

3. Nearly all people dislike change, but why do you think we dislike change? Is it something within us like the Sin Nature? Or is it due to how we were raised? To what extent is society or the individual responsible for aversion to or openness to change?

1. Van Opstal presents three points on how to navigate creating change in worship settings. How well have you seen those ideas implemented? What other learning points would you offer to foster healthy change and openness toward change?

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NarrativeMeSearchAnalysisWorksheet2.docx

Narrative Me-Search Analysis Worksheet

The purpose of this exercise is to reflect and explore how our beliefs and narratives about creed, culture, and country shape how we live out our identity at home, school, church, and in our neighborhood. Please describe and explain each context using concrete, specific examples.

When completed, this Worksheet should be about 3.5–4 pages long total (single-spaced), with your reflections entered directly under each section’s prompts and instructions. Submit the completed worksheet on the course site.

Introduction

What would you like to learn about being you from this project and course, specifically your religious (creed), ethnicity (country), and cultural identity (mono/inter)? Summarize your current perspective on religious, ethnic, and cultural identity in your own voice. What questions do you have about religion, ethnicity, and cultural identity? What information do you need to understand religious, ethnic, and cultural identity? (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

[Input response here]

Earliest Memories of religious, ethnic, and cultural beliefs?

Think back to the earliest times you realized you had a religious, ethnic, and cultural beliefs. It’s okay if you don’t remember all the exact details. Describe as much as you can about that experience here. (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

[Input response here]

What did the experience detailed above teach you to think about your own contextual and cultural self? What does it mean to be a cultural/religious person in your everyday life — what are you unsure of? What are you clear about? (2-3 paragraphs; 15 points)

[Input response here]

Identity Socialization

In your family, what were the stories, myths, stereotypes that you grew up with about religion, race, and nationality? What role did you think these stories, myths, stereotypes, assumptions, and thinking about culture, nationality, race, and religion played in your personal and group identity? Thinking about the earliest memories of realizing you had a religious, racial, or national/ethnic identity, write about the feelings you have as you remember this experience. (3-4 paragraphs; 20 points)

[Input response here]

Identity Re-Socialization

Growing up in school, church, or other socio-cultural situations, what are the significant learnings you have gained from your relationships with friends and others that have challenged what you learned at home about your religious, racial, ethnic, or cultural identity? (1-2 paragraphs; 10 points)

[Input response here]

What is the emotional cost of being under- or miseducated about religion, ethnicity, and culture? Explain what role people from diverse religious or ethnic backgrounds have in shaping your identity and mindset about culture (2-3 paragraphs; 15 points)

[Input response here]

A Cultural Body Living in a Society of Difference, Diversity, and Globalization

Think about what is happening in national and global society recently, (i.e. migration, policing or court outcomes, Black Lives Matter, international and domestic conflicts, economic scarcity and disparity, climate threats, etc.) Additionally, if possible, reflect on any experiences you have had travelling outside of your home nation or culture. What is it like representing a category associated with your body in a racialized and global society? (2-3 Paragraphs; 15 points)

[Input response here]

Conclusion

Summarize your main points briefly, echo the introduction, and make recommendations for yourself: How are you going to think differently about who you are as a human being? (1 paragraph; 5 points)

[Input response here]