{"id":824,"date":"2018-03-21T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2018-03-21T11:06:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T15:06:20","slug":"passover-heresy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/passover-heresy\/","title":{"rendered":"Passover Heresy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To some:
\nIt is a heresy to celebrate a religious holiday on a day other than the prescribed date.
\nIt is a heresy to place an orange in the middle of a seder plate.
\nIt is a heresy to adopt a tradition outside one’s own.<\/p>\n

To me, it is only ‘heresy’ when my tradition (Christianity) appropriates the meal to give it ‘Christian’ meaning. The story is universal. It is the story of the Jews. It is the story of humanity. The question for me is, “where do our stories intersect?”.<\/p>\n

My answer this year is this:
\nthey intersect in the places we are oppressed
\nthey intersect in the places we oppress others
\nthey intersect when we examine the journey of the faithfulness\/faithlessness
\nthey intersect when the story we recall resonates in our hearts and minds<\/p>\n

With great thanksgiving for the Jewish tradition of the Passover seder,
\nwe celebrate the meal each year
\nand we remember
\nand we learn
\nand we internalize
\nand we encourage
\nand we mourn
\nand we celebrate
\nand we learn to hope again<\/p>\n

We challenge authority and the misuse of power. We encourage one another to resist<\/em>. We remember to trust that Godde’s vision for humanity as one of freedom.<\/p>\n

And we learn with our bodies. We take it in.
\nthe flatness
\nthe bitterness
\nthe heaviness
\nthe sweetness of safety at the expense of slavery
\nthe price of freedom
\nthe joy of shared stories
\nand the celebration of hope.<\/p>\n

This is our gracious heresy: that our stories are shared and that they call us again and again to remember who we are \u00a0to one another and to Godde.<\/p>\n

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