The Bush Was Blazing but Not Consumed

by Law, Eric H. F.

• ISBN13: 9780827202221
• ISBN10: 0827202229
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Chalice Pr

Summary

Best-selling author Eric Law shows how to work with the dynamics of diverse cultures to create a truly inclusive community.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
A Fire that Consumed: The 1992 Los Angeles Riots	1	(3)
The Bush Was Blazing, But Not Consumed: In Search of God in the Fire	4	(9)
Fire as Divine Judgment and Purification	13	(5)
Obsession over the Unholy Fire	18	(8)
The Golden Calf Syndrome	26	(10)
Up and Down the Tower of Babel: Another Vision of a Multicultural Community	36	(10)
Coming Down from Our Tower of Babel: Examining Our Ethnocentrism	46	(15)
Tending the Burning Bush on Level Ground: Maintaining Ethnorelativism	61	(13)
Today I Set Before You Life and Death...Choose Life!	74	(6)
Lighting, Sanctifying, and Maintaining the Holy Fire Through Dialogue	80	(20)
Differences in Communication Styles and the Dialogue Process	100	(12)
Dialogue as Liturgy	112	(7)
Liturgy as Dialogue	119	(8)
Appendix A An Intercultural Dialogue/Worship Service	127	(8)
Appendix B A Five-Session Intercultural Dialogue Program	135	(19)
Appendix C A Dialogue Process: Focusing on Differences in Communication Styles	154	(4)
Appendix D Techniques for Managing a Bilingual Gathering	158	(2)
Appendix E Teaching a Congregation to Sing A New Song	160