Everybody Needs An Immigrant As A Friend: Learn the Story and Your Life Will Be Changed
Season 2, Episode 212, Nov 21, 2019, 09:34 AM
Part Two, today, of our conversation with Randy Mayer, who leads a humanitarian relief ministry to migrants coming across the border in the desert area of Arizona. His church is The Good Shepherd, UCC, in the Santa Cruz valley not far from Mexico.
Listen to Part One of our conversation with Randy, on the show released last week on November 14, 2019.
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Here are timecodes to help you navigate through today’s show:
02:25 If there were 3000 people dying in your neighborhood, what would you do? Randy recounts the human element, the numbers of people who have died trying to get into the United States.
04:26 Is it the purpose of religious practice to form in us the moral imagination to see the humanity of the other? What other purposes for religious practice are there? Are those purposes related to each other? How do those purposes connect us to God?
07:00 The beauty of being part of a religious tradition is that you can go deep into the core stories, and you can walk in a path that has been trod by others. What are pitfalls here? And can we receive the same kind, or similar, formation without being part of a religious tradition?
10:54 Everyone needs an immigrant for a friend. Why does Randy say this?
13:00 Christian morality needs to be more encompassing than simply to focus of codes of sexual purity. Why are we paying so much attention to codes of sexual purity?
16:16 How can physical, embodied practices lead us to spiritual wisdom in ways that thinking cannot?
17:00 Shayna shares a story about the divine image being carried by all people. How, then, does the work of service save not only the receiver, but the giver?
21:30 The world is cruel, and our society grows more coarse. How are we going to make a difference?