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June Christine Goudey
(The Pilgrim Press, June 2002)
For more than twenty years of ordained ministry, my life-work has been to communicate grace and educate imagination. After struggling for many years with the church’s theological emphasis on sacrificial imagery and suffering, and its use of guilt, fear, punishment, and pain as a means to express God’s love, I seek to foster individual and communal well-being by expanding our awareness of the nature of communion and community within and without the Christian Church. I also seek to expand our experience of what it means to be fully alive. Through my writing and through these lectures I offer a healing vision of human imagination that can transform our understanding of what it means to be fully human and fully connected in the life of the Spirit.
Educating Imagination Lecture Series *
Lecture 1:
Imagination and the Human Jesus—We are more like than unlike
Examines: What do we mean by imagination?
Lecture 2:
When Confession is Not Good for the Soul—It’s a matter of trust
Examines: What do we mean by soul?
Lecture 3:
Mind Your Life Not Your Manners—Mindfulness is body-fulness
Examines: How our bodies think.
Lecture 4:
Improvising Life—It’s the Only Way to Grow
Examines: The meaning of change
Lecture 5:
Awe-Robics for Daily Living—Praying with your eyes open
Examines: The difference between awe and fear
Lecture 6:
Being Human is Simply Divine—Our end is in our beginning
Examines: Our more than human humanness
To invite Dr. Goudey to speak to your congregation or community, please contact her at : 310-386-8021, junegoudey@gmail.com or pastor@uccsimi.org
*Lectures are also available as individual sessions or in a retreat context.
