Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Gratitude

 I am wash with gratitude 

the moment I step into this space. 

Excitement eases the day off of my shoulders

as soon as I see your faces.  

I bite my tongue to stop myself from saying your name

with too vibrant of a greeting, 

But I am so grateful to be able to see you all

and step into this place of meeting. 

I am alone, or it feels that way all the time

this is my sense of community, 

Or as close as I could at such a distance. 

Every week is another opportunity 

for a joining of thoughts and voices

spirit to pass through.

So let me take a moment, 

to really say thank you. 


Sunday, October 13, 2024

Full moon spell - Thursday

 Alrighty looks like I am going to do a simmer pot spell for the full moon to add some empowerment to my statue spell. 


Water:

  • Purfied water
  • Florida water
  • Merlot  - unity, passion, love, ocean witchcraft, prosperity, water magic, sexuality
  • Muscato - love, relationships, successs
  • Peach pomegranate juice
    • peach; love, wish fulfillment, fertility
    • pomegranate; substitute for blood, increase fertility, wish fulfillment, luck
Herbs:
  • Cinnamon; love, love, ambition, masculine energy, raises the speed and vibration of a spell
  • Lavender; essential for love spells, peace, relaxation, cleansing
  • Mint  - Promotes energy, communication and vitality
  • Wood Betony - Draws love in your direction.
  • Bay Leaf - success - write the goals on them
  • Ginger - power, love, success
  • Basil; love, raising vibrations, 

Stones: 
  • Calcite; Energizing
  • Garnet; energizing, passion, wellness
  • Garnierite; love, manifestation, 
  • moonstone; New Beginnings, love, lunar magic
  • Clear Quarts; energizing
  • opal; love, luck, hope
  • rainforst jasper (my broken braclet!) - change, positivity, growth

Oils:
  • few drops of love drawing oil
  • sweet orange; positivity and hope
  • sandalwood; raises energy vibrations, luck, success, divination
  • lemon balm; lemon balm; attracts romantic love and loyal friendships

**Other ingredients; to be added in whatever way possible:
  • Sunflower: Energy, protection, and power.  Aids wisdom and brings about wishes 
  • Willow -  Used for lunar magic, drawing or strengthening love ---- ask willow!?
  • Vanilla; love, lust, to sweeten someones feelings towards you ----- maybe. 
Playlist:
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiwVJg_jOAAqi-aDvNYmdBD0IUkNShkWP

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    1. Light the Candle
    2. Fill pot with water about 3/4 full.
    3. Add ingredients to the pot and bring to a boil.
    4. Reduce to a simmer, stir the pot clockwise and repeat spell 3 times. . 
    5. Simmer for an hour - then reduce heat/turn it off and let the statue soak in the bath - timing TBD.

    Thursday, October 3, 2024

    Blogs while I am in school

     Hey guys, 

    So my regular blog will probably be pretty dry for the next several years. I will mostly be posting school stuff but I'll be doing major life updates as well as things occur. 


    However I have decided to actually write a theological Autobiography. 


    A Pagan's Journey through Seminary School

    A theological Autobiography

    By Lisa Sawyer

    I'll be working on it until I graduate. Most likely until I get ordained and maybe include a chapter or two from my first year working as a chaplain. 

    It will be a combination of 

    Personal Essays and Experiences, Journal Entries tracking how my perspective on things have changed over the years, poetry and art, and maybe even some of the paper I've had to write that end up being really meaningful for me. 



    Monday, September 30, 2024

    Truth paper outline and quotes

     Truth Paper - 8 pages - Chicago style Bibliography and Citation

    Truth - it is unknowable, what is really out there. 

    •  Quotes from Caputo about how God is truly unknowable
    • Apophatic theology - we know what God is NOT and that's all we can really say given that God is indescribable. 
      • On what cannot be said  pg 145
      • models of god pg 23



    Is God unknowable? 
    • “Each faculty must remain within its natural operation, and cannot shift to that of a neighboring sense. The eye, for example, cannot operate on the data of audition; hearing cannot taste; touch cannot speak, and the tongue cannot function one that is visible or audible. Each sense remains within the bounds of its own faculty within the operation prescribed by nature. So too no created being can go outside of itself by rational contemplation. Whatever it sees, it identify must see itself; and even if it thinks it is seeing beyond itself, it does not in fact possess a nature which can achieve this (William Frank 2007, 149-150).”
    • But I disagree. God may be indescribable in any way other than metaphor, which as many of the readings reminds us is medicore at best. There are ways to know and experience "God" even if we can't properly describe it.
      • Music!! - sacred attunement pg xiii
      • “…. tear ourselves away from this attachment to the non-existent and attach ourselves to real being [God]; then it ceases to have that existence in me any longer, and never will have it again completely… When I attach myself and cleave to what is truly being [God], I abide in that which will always was, is now and ever shall be. (147)”
    • A theology that would unfold "in truth" does not confuse itself with "the truth" - on the myster pg 38

    Is there a right answer? - no.
    ALL theology is theory and opinion. There is no way to know what is actually out there until we leave our mortal bodies and experience it for ourselves. However while living this life we must be aware and open to the fact that we don't know
    • The claim of absolute truth is the greatest single obstruction to theological honesty - keller on the mystery pg 8
    • Sacred Attunement pg 2 quote - examine our beliefs
    • sacred attunement pg 13 purple quote
    • we must accept our limitations in what we can know - on what cannot be said.. there gatta be a few quotes for that.
    • but our belief and fatih does shape the world we live in. We must accept our power and the influence we have (models of god pg 17) while also accepting the dependence we have on the very thing we have faith in.
    • ". Comparing views implies commensurability and a metric for comparison, by means of which we can detect the proximity of views to one another, to the categorical requirements, and to competitor views outside the category. This metric is what I have called (in ln Our Own lmage) a "disintegrating metric" - Wildman Ultimate Reality 262 -- perhaps what can't be said about GOD and what can be said about God cover two areas of speech - but the truth of what GOD is falls between them in the unspoken?
      • what if truth itself is a way, not an endpoint?What if the way and its truth deliver no totalizing absolute - nor deliver us to the indifferent dissolute? What if we have here to find a third way? - Keller on the msytery xiv
    • trans-religious theology (lately also known as 'theology without walls") attempts to ask and answer theological questions without privileging particular religious traditions or bodies of purportedly authoritative revelation. In light ofthe view set forth here, it is to be expected that every religious tradition and indeed every spiritual journey is oriented to really ultimate reality regardless of how the object of ultimate concem is actually described in each case - Wildman ultimate reality 263


    Overall outline: What do apophatic theologians, both classic and contemporary, say about what can and cannot be said in theology? What is the relationship between the via negativa and the via positiva, between apophatic negation and cataphatic affirmation, between mystical silence and theological speech, between divine ineffability and divine revelation?

    1. Is God unknowable?
      1. What is God?
        1. Caputo's pantheism vs panentheism - the very ground we walk on.
      2. Is God unknowable?
        1. Yes
          1. Models of God - page 37 
          2. What cannot be said 150
        2. No - How can we know it?
          1. Music (Sacred attunement xiii)  and Poetry (cannot be said 236)
          2. The tearing away of oneself... (113, 147, 149 Cannot be said)
            1. Meditation and Plant Medicine 
    2. Is God unsayable?
      1. apophatic theology; the failure of language and the use of metaphor
        1. Sacred attunement's definition - xi
        2. on what cannot be said 111, 1121, 145
      2. cataphatic theology and theopoetics.
        1. Caputo definition of theopoetics
        2. Talking about God does not come down to concepts, propositions, and arguments (the only remedies in their medical bag when the doctors of philosophy arrive on the scene). Talking about God ultimately comes down to other discursive resources—images and figures, metaphors and metonyms, symbols and allegories, parables and paradoxes, stories and striking sayings, songs and dance—in which we seek to express the grip the unconditional has upon us, by which we have been seized from a time out of mind - caputo pg 31
    3. Whats the point?
      1. Is there a right answer? -No & why. 
        1. Multiple different faiths - and going on radical theology is possible that all or multiple of them are correct! 
          1. Spirit as an element as opposed to a deity; how deities came about, the self as deity (models of god - pg 6 & 28) --- using God to make the gods.
          2. Sacred Attunement pg 2
          3. Models of God pg 7
          4. ego death: 
          5. “…tearing the soul away from its contrary, to which it was adhering, and uniting it with that true reality which is beyond all reason. (149)”
          6. This to me sounds eerily similar to the Buddhist practice of non-attachment and on page 112 and 113 Franke writes that “for only silence can witness to the manifestation of God’s transcendence… God is manifest … in the..’small voice’ of silence.”
          7. Types of Religions: https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Solano_Community_College/SOC_002%3A_Social_Issues_and_Problems/14%3A_Religion/14.02%3A_Types_of_Religions#:~:text=Judaism%2C%20Christianity%20and%20Islam%20are,belief%20that%20multiple%20gods%20exist.
      2. So what is the point?
        1. The role of religion (models of god pg 25, sacred attunement pg 5)
        2. The role of mythology (the role of mythology: models of god pg 22)
        3. Just because we don't know the right answer, and quite possibly may never know the right answer, doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying to figure it out. - "the truth-process does not eliminate uncertainty or its chaos, it makes it visible, in order to release a livelier, more redemptive order" - you can' t force religion/faith/truth on others. "it must emerge" from within them. - on the mystery pg 14


      Sunday, September 22, 2024

      The Sound of Spirit

       Lecture: "The true theology according to apophatic theologians is silence"

      The sound of Spirit

      You are there in the silence, 
      In the momentary pause between breaths and sobs,
      When I feel alone in the moment
      You are there around me nonetheless. 

      You are there in the silence, 
      In the milliseconds before the inspiration hits
      Words flooding my mind like a river
      You are there in the current. 

      You are there in the silence, 
      A voice without sound reminding me I am not alone
      You pour into my ears on music notes
      You speak directly to my heart. 

      You are there in the silence, 
      When words fail me and all I can do is open my heart
      Letting hot water sting my eyes as I pray
      Nothing but silence passes between us. 
      You are there in the silence.

      Saturday, September 21, 2024

      SPF Journal 2

      Possible quotes

      • ....the role of the spiritual emotions of awe and wonder, and transcendence in art and religion. Taking their energy and drive from SEEKING and PLAY systems, these spiritual emotions function to temper intense feelings of FEAR or GRIEF in the context of the neocortical imaginative elaboration of culture. The emotionally saturated state engendered in spiritual emotions is immanent  in our neuropsychology, but the ways in which we communicate our experiences in art are unique. (Asma and Gabriel, 20)
      • Its worth Paying attention to whatever cultural products draw straightforwardly on sex to gain position, even and especially if women are the driving concept. (Tolentino, 85)
      • The Ideal woman looks beautiful, happy, carefree and perfectly competent. Is she really? To look any particular way and to actually be that way are two separate concepts, and striving to look carefree and happy can interfere with your ability to do so. (Tolentino, 89)
      • Its possible if we want it. What what do we want? What would you want - what desires, what desires, what forms of insubordination, would you be able to access in becoming an ideal woman, gratified and beloved, proof of the efficiency of a system that magnifies and diminishes you every day? (Tolentino, 94)
      • I have so many highlighted in the "Uses of the Erotic" reading oh my gosh


      At the end of Tolentino's "Always be Optimizing" she asks a very thought provoking question:

      What what do we want? What would you want - what desires, what desires, what forms of         insubordination, would you be able to access in becoming an ideal woman, gratified and beloved, proof of the efficiency of a system that magnifies and diminishes you every day? (Tolentino, 94)

      I believe that Audre Lorde actually provides the answer - or rather the exact same answer I would respond with: eroticism. "Our acts against oppression  become integral with self, motivated and empowered within (Lorde, 58)" and that "the erotic [is] a source of power and information... (Lourde 54)."

      She defines the erotic a variety of ways:

      • It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire. For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognized its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less for ourselves. (page 54)
      • The personification of love in all its aspects - born o Chaos, and personifying creative power and harmony. When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; ( page 55)
      • The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest knowledge (page 56)
      • ...sharing deeply any pursuit with another person... whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers... (page 56)
      She goes on to explain in her essay how eroticisms is sensual and the connection made in sex is what makes it erotic - not the sex itself. In fact sex without deep connection and emotion is how she defines pornography, the opposite of eroticism. 

      I could easily write multiple pages on this alone, its spiritual significance, my own journey that I learned this with at the guidance of Lilith, and the importance of this lesson being one repeated multiple times in a woman's life because, as Tolentino and Lourde reiterated our society seeks to trap us into the "ideal woman" and it is easy to fall into it - including forgetting our eroticism. However to make what would be a very enjoyable, albeit lengthy paper, short I will skip to the next quote that I feel help connect this essay to our class and the focus on the body, emotions, and self in the power of becoming.

      "...we [society] have attempted to separate the spiritual and the erotic, thereby reducing the spiritual to a world of flattened affect, a world of the ascetic who aspire to feel nothing. But nothing is farthest from the truth...For the bridge that connects them [different areas of life] is formed by the erotic - the sensual- those physical, emotional, and psychic expressions of what is deepest and strongest and richest within each of us, being shared: the passion of live, in its deepest meanings. (page 56)"

       This is a very key thing for me, in that sensuality (and as an extension, sexuality) is a very core aspect of spirituality. Lourde makes a comparison later in the reading about how there is no difference in writing a poem than making love to a woman she loves - what she is getting at is that at its core eroticism is a deep love and sense of joy for life. The same, I believe, can be said for the human experience of connecting with the divine. Eroticism, at is core, is one of the things that truly makes us human. 

      To me, eroticism is very hard to find when society makes a point to separate you from it, and it is hard to fine alone. Lourde even specifies in the 4th definition above that is occurs when shared with another person. But that deep energy, the power that arises from it, how can one say that it is not of the divine? 

      Should the opportunity ever arise I would love to elaborate on this topic even more in connection to how this divinity is accessed and used in spiritual practices (tantric buddhism, sex magic through witcraft or secular "manifestation", etc). 


      Thursday, September 19, 2024

      Plans for the Semester.... to be updated

      Comprehensive calendar of assignments, readings, & papers. 

      Does not include the SPF Projects:

      • Spiritual autobiography & Spiritual practice presentation

      ..... I .... want.... to .... cry.....



      ***If possible I need to Sign up For spiritual Autobiography Group 4 so I can do it for reading week. 

      • Spiritual Personal Formation
      • Invitation to Theology

      For the first section of the classes until the first break/Reading Week

      Tuesday 9/17

      • Class
      • Finished reading Caputo Lessons 4-6

      Thursday 9/19
      • Class 
      • Do the 5 paragraphs paper - module 2
      Friday 9/20
      • 20's Gala for Work
      • Start theology paper - module 2
      Saturday 9/21
      • Finish Theology paper
      • Read all 3 SPF readings & Complete Journal 2 - module 2
      Sunday9/22
      • Hiking
      • Clean house
      • On What Cannot Be Said: Preface, 6, 11,12,13, 15, 16 - module 2
      • Theology Lecture 2 - module 2

      Monday 9/23
      • GYM
      • Niebuhr, “Mystery and Meaning” (14 pgs) - module 2
      • SPF video (25 mins) - module 2
      • SPF lecture 2 - module 2

      Tuesday 9/24
      • Class 
      • On What Cannot Be Said Chapters 17, 18, 20  - module 2
      • Start planning Spiritual Practice outline 
      • Start planning autobiography outline 
        • Brigid and Aine
        • Lilith
        • Lucifer


      Wednesday 9/25
      • GYM
      • Game Night/D&D
      • On What Cannot Be Said Chapters 22, 25, 26, 27 - Module 2 
      • Fishbane Chapter 1 (1-45) - Module 3 start

      Thursday 9/26
      • Class
      • Friedman Introduction in Failure of Nerve, 1-28 - Module 3
      • Chapter 2 in Failure of Nerve, 51-94 - Module 3
      • “Hive of Nerves” in My Bright Abyss, 85-102 - module 3
      • Journal 3 SPF - Module 3


      Friday 9/27
      • SPF Autobiography pitches to sus out which paper to write; --> Surrendering into the Void
        • Play with poetry vs Prose
        • Involve Music? 
          • Tale of the untold her -- Lilith 
          •  Lucifer?
          • Brigid & Aine?

      • FUCK SCHOOL I NEED TO RECHARGE
      Saturday 9/28
      • McFague, Models of God, Preface and Chapters 1 - Module 3
      Sunday 9/29

      • Theology Video before bed.30 min. - module 3
      • McFague, Models of God, Preface and Chapters 1- Module 3
      • Discussion Board 3 - Module 3
      • SPF Lecture 3 - 1hr
      Monday 9/30 . 
      • Gym
      • McFague, “A Meditation on Exodus 33:23b”* - Module 3

      • McFague, “Metaphorical Theology”* - module 3
      • Write outline for TRUTH paper. its more extensive than previously thought.
      • Outline for Autobiography
      • Spiritual Practice Presentation DUE

      Tuesday 10/1
      • Class
      • Friedman - Chapter 4(132-157) - Module 4
      • SPF Journal #4
      Wednesday 10/2
      • Gym
      • Darts
      • McFague, Models of God, Chapter 3 - Module 3
      • Keller, On the Mystery, Prologue and Chapters 1 - Module 4
      Thursday 10/3
      • Class
      • Morrison “Recitatif” in Schwehn and Bass, 353-370 - Module 4
      • Friedman - Chapter 5 (158-186) - Module 4
      • Friedman Chapter 7 (204-226) - Module 4
      •  Keller, On the Mystery - Chapter 2 - Module 4
      • Discussion Board 4 - Module 4
      Friday 10/4
      • Gym
      • Wells “Rethinking Service” in Schwehn and Bass, 374-387 - Module 4
      • Keller, On the Mystery, Chapters 4&5 - Module 4
      • Start SPF Autobiography 
      Saturday 10/5
      • SPF Autobiography paper 
      Sunday 10/6
      • SPF Lecture 4
      • SPF FINISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAPE
      Monday 10/7
      • Gym
      • Baldwin The Fire Next Time, 47-75 - Module 5
      • AUTOBIOGRAPHY DUE
      • Wildman, God Is, All - Module 5 - I read 3 out of the 9. These were ROUGH.
      • Discussion Board - Module 5
      Tuesday 10/8
      • Class
      • Lindner “The Perils and Possibilities of Multiplicity” - Module 5
      • Baldwin  The Fire Next Time, 76-106 - Module 5
      • Wildman, “Really Ultimate Reality”* - Module 5
      Wednesday 10/9
      • Gym
      • SPF Mid term outline
      • SPF Journal  - Module 5
      • Wildman, God Is, All - Module 5 -- read at least 2 more.
      Thursday 10/10
      • Class
      • Eli Wiesel Night Opening & 1-65 - Module 6
      Friday 10/11
      • Gym
      • D&D 
      Saturday 10/12
      • SPF Midterm - multi dimensional  - finish
      • Wildman, God Is, All - Module 5 -- read at least 2 more.
      Sunday 10/13
      • SPF MIDTERM DUE. (Multidimensional)

      Monday 10/14
      • Gym
      • Cohn-Sherbok, Holocaust Theology: A Reader, Introduction and Chapter 1 - Module 6
      • 2 personal chapters
      • SPF Lecture 5
      Tuesday 10/15  
      • Class
      • SPF 1/2 Readings - Module 6
      Wednesday 10/16
      • Gym
      • Darts
      • Discussion Board - Module 6 
      Thursday 10/17
      • Class
      • Work on Theology Mid term - truth
      • SPF 2nd half of Module 6 readings
      • SPF Journal  - Module 6
      Friday 10/18
      • Gym
      • Work on Theology Mid term - truth 
      • Eli Wiesel Night 65-115 - Module 6
      Saturday 10/19
      •  Finish Theology midterm - truth
      • Meet Michael?
      Sunday 10/20
      • THEOLOGY MIDTERM DUE - truth
      • Theology Lecture 3 - Module 6
      • Theology Video - 1 hr - Module 7 
      Monday 10/21
      • Gym
      • SPF Lecture 6
      • 2 autobiographic chapters
      Tuesday 10/22
      • Class
      • Plaskow, “Facing the Ambiguity of God”* - Module 7
      Wednesday 10/23
      • Gym 
      • D&D/Game night
      Thursday 10/24
      • Class
      • Rubenstein, After Auschwitz, Chapters 1, 8* - Module 7 
      Friday 10/25
      • Gym
      • Rubenstein, After Auschwitz, Chapters 9, 13, 16* - Module 7 
      Saturday 10/26
      • Visit Mom? Something social?
      Sunday 10/27
      • Discussion Board - Module 7 
      • SPF Lecture 7
      Monday 10/28
      • Gym
      • 2 autobiographic chapters
      Tuesday 10/29
      • No Class
      • SPF Readings Module 7 1/2
      • Cohn-Sherbok, Holocaust Theology: A Reader, Chapters 3-4, 6, - Module 8
      Wednesday 10/30
      • Darts
      Thursday 10/31
      • No Class
      • SPF Readings Module 7 2/2
      • SPF Journal - Module 7
      Friday 11/1
      • Gym
      • Cohn-Sherbok, Holocaust Theology: A Reader, Chapters 9-13 - Module 8
      • Discussion Board - Module 8
      Saturday 11/2
      • Start Theology "Goodness" Paper -- Due 11/17... and factor in being out of it for my surgery.
      Sunday 11/3
      • Work on Goodness Paper 
      • SPF Readings 1-4  - Module 8 
      • SPF Lecture 8
      Monday 11/4
      • GYM
      • SPF Readings 4-8 Module 8 
      • SPF journal 8 
      • 2 autobiographical chapters
      Tuesday 11/5
      • Class

      • Tillich, “Art and Ultimate Reality”* - Module 9

      • Loomer, “S-I-Z-E is the Measure”* - Module 9

      Wednesday 11/6
      • GYM
      • D&D
      • Finish Godness Paper
      Thursday 11/7
      • Dean, Coming To: A Theology of Beauty, Chapter 4* - Module 9

      • Dean, “Liberal Realism: T.S. Eliot and the Ambiguity of God”* - Module 9

      • Class
      Friday 11/8
      • Day of Surgery... no school. 
      Saturday 11/9
      • Recovery.. no school
      Sunday 11/10
      • Recovery... no school
      Monday 11/11
      • Bednarowski, “Theological Creativity and the Powerful Persistence of Religious Symbols”*

      • Driver “Ritualizing: The Animals Do it and So Do We” (PDF on Canvas) - module 9
      • SPF Lecture 9
      • 2 autobiographical chapters
      Tuesday 11/12
      • Class
      • Fishbane Chapter 2, 46-107 - Module 9
      Wednesday 11/13
      • No darts or Game night - recovery 
      • Thatamanil, “Constructive Theology as Theopoetics”* - Module 9

      • Discussion 9

      • Theology Lecture 4 - Module 9
      Thursday 11/14
      • No Class - Theology Video 1.5 hour
      • FINISH GOODNESS PAPER
      Friday 11/15
      • Wiman “Varieties of Quiet” in My Bright Abyss, 117-144 - Module 9
      • Journal 9
      • SPF Paper
      Saturday 11/16
      • SPF paper
      Sunday 11/17
      • THEOLOGY PAPER DUE (Goodness)
      • SPF Paper Finish
      • SPF Lecture 10

      Monday 11/18
      • SPF PAPER DUE (Religious Horizons)
      • 2 autobiographical chapters

      Tuesday 11/19
      • Class
      • Coakley “Deepening Practices” (PDF on Canvas) - Module 10
      • Start planning Final Project?
      Wednesday 11/20
      • Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 1 - Module 10
      • Driver “Ritual’s Social Gifts” (PDF on Canvas) - Module 10
      • Fishbane Chapter 3, 108-155 - Module 10
      • Journal 10
      Thursday 11/21
      • Class
      • Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 2& 3 - Module 10
      Friday 11/22
      • Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 4 & 5 - Module 10
      • Lourde - Poetry is not a Luxury,” in Sister Outsider, 24-27 - Module 11
      • lourde - “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action”, in Sister Outsider, 28-32
      Saturday 11/23
      • Cone, The Spirituals and the Blue Chapters 6 & Reflection - Module 10
      • Discussion 10
      Sunday  11/24
      • Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 1 - Module 11
      • SPF Lecture 11
      Monday 11/25
      •  Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 2 - Module 11
      • 2 autobiographical chapters
      Tuesday 11/26
      • Class
      • Weiman - “Preface,” in My Bright Abyss, ix-x - Module 11
      • Weiman “Sorrow’s Flower,” 15-32 - Module 11
      • Weiman “Tender Interiors,” 33-39 - Module 11
      Wednesday 11/27
      • Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 3 - Module 11
      Thursday 11/28
      • No Class
      • Alexander, Saving Beauty, Chapter 4 - Module 11
      • Discussion 11
      • Weiman “God’s Truth is Life,” 39-63 - Module 11
      Friday 11/29
      • Weiman “O Thou Mastering Light,” 63-81- Module 11
      • Weiman “Dear Oblivion,” 81-85 - Module 11
      • Weiman“God is Not Beyond,” 103-116 - Module 11
      • SPF Jounal 11
      • GYM?
      Saturday 11/30
      • Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, Lessons 7 - 9 - Module 12
      Sunday 12/1
      • SPF Final Project 
      • SPF Lecture 12
      Monday 12/2
      • SPF Final Project 
      • Wiman  “Mortify Our Wolves,”in My Bright Abyss, 145-162 - Module 11
      • Wiman “A Million Little Oblivions,” 163-178 - Module 11
      • 2 autobiographical chapters
      Tuesday 12/3
      • SPF Final Project 
      • Lorde - “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” in Sister Outsider, 115-125
      • Lorde - “Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger,” 138-169 - Module 12
      Wednesday 12/4
      • SPF Final Project 
      • Tolstoy - “The Death of Ivan Ilych” in Schwehn and Bass, 570-618 - Module 12
      • Jounral 12
      Thursday 12/5
      • yay my bday
      • Class
      • SPF Final FINISH
      Friday 12/6
      • surprise .... no school
      Saturday 12/7
      • Surprise...... no school
      Sunday 12/8
      • surprise... No school
      Monday 12/9
      • SPF FINAL DUE (Integrative Project)
      • Theology Lecture 12
      • Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, Lessons 10

      • 2 autobiographical chapters

      Tuesday 12/10
      • Last SPF Class - no more assignments! 
      Wednesday 12/11
      • Caputo, What to Believe? Twelve Brief Lessons in Radical Theology, Lessons 11 & 12
      • Lesson 12 Discussion
      Thursday 12/12
      • Last SPF Class
      • Theology Final
      Friday 12/13
      • Theology Final 
      Saturday 12/14
      • Theology final finish 
      Sunday 12/15
      • THEOLOGY FINAL DUE (Beauty)


      DONE WITH THE SEMESTER