St. Aidan's Anglican Church, Kansas City - weekly talks

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Jesus addresses the deep heart and implies a whole "renewed" way of viewing the other as gift without objectification. Redeemed desire triumphs over lust. See entire sermon notes at http://www.staidanskc.org/blog/

Bishop Rennis Ponniah, Anglican Diocese of Singapore - #2 in a series of character studies for Courageous Leadership.

Kansas City, MO was the location of the SOMA USA Retreat for 2015: http://somausa.org/

Notes to this homily can be found at http://www.staidanskc.org/blog/

The baptismal liturgy offers us a window into a restored world whereby the power of blessing restores creation to its original design. Jesus is restoring all creation to the purity of its origins. The blessing of the water is such an enactment wherein new creation comes forth ... by water and the Spirit.

Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi, Jos, Nigeria, gave four messages from Paul's letter to the Philippians at the SOMA USA Anglican Clergy Retreat in Parkville, MO. This is the second message from Philippians 1.

Anglican Archbishop Benjamin Kwashi, Jos, Nigeria, gave four messages from Paul's letter to the Philippians at the SOMA USA Anglican Clergy Retreat in Parkville, MO. This is the second message from Philippians 2.

Sermon notes are posted on http://www.staidanskc.org/blog/

Sermon notes can be downloaded at St. Aidan's Anglican Church Blog page ... www.staidanskc.org

Hardness of heart is the way Jesus describes the results of original sin. In the beginning we know the hearts of man and woman were spiritually alive and open both to God and to one another because of this key line: The man and his wife were both naked and felt no shame” (Gen. 2:25).

In the beginning, before original sin began rewriting our story, man and woman were integrated, body and soul, the physical and the spiritual, and were able to see each other in light of God’s image inscribed right in their bodies as male and female. When Adam looked at Eve, he not only saw her naked body, but an embodied person.

“The fact that ‘they did not feel shame’ means that the woman was not an ‘object’ for the man, nor he for her.” They “see and know each other, in fact, with all the peace of the interior gaze.” JPII

Male and female were able to see from the inside-out and from the outside-in. Intimacy means … Into-Me-See.

And … without any shame. We have lost fullness of sight.

This way of seeing the other refers to an interior way of “seeing” that reveals and celebrates the interior mystery of the other person’s naked heart in and through the other person’s naked body. In other words, nakedness without shame refers to a way of seeing, knowing and experiencing the other with an unbroken integration of body and soul: it means that seeing the other person’s naked body is seeing the other person’s naked soul. In the beginning, man and woman enjoyed an inner gaze of purity.