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servant leaders from Week 4, (4) Greenleaf on ―inner city church,‖ (5)
the
Beatitudes for Leaders from Ebener. Name: Kim Fenske
Opinion: As I review Matthew‘s lecture on theological reflection, the
women in
Ross‘ book, Witnessing & Testifying, were engaged in the three
way
conversation among their ancestors in the church (i.e., especially
mothers and
grandmothers), their everyday experiences. These women kept
growing deeper as they lived through their experiences, correlated
their experiences
with traditions, and finally moved into practical action applying what
they had
learned and where God had taken them in their journey. They applied
this
practical theology assuming God is active and redemptive and He is a
reconciling presence in this world. In Romans 12:2, God urges us,
―Do not
conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the
renewing of
your mind.‖ Diane Nash provided a wonderful example of putting this
idea
into practice: ―Her devout Catholic upbringing seems to have
combined easily
with teachings she received about nonviolent direct action to form
clearly in
her mind a moral perspective that segregation was sinful and should
be
strongly opposed‖ (Ross, 2003, p.167). Nash was not going to
conform as she
theologically reflected on her experiences.
This circle of theological reflection was also highlighted in Ngunjiri‘s
thoughts
on tempered radicals in her book, Women‘s Spiritual Leadership in
Africa (Ngunjiri, 2010). Ngunjiri defines tempered radicals as ―people
who are