Jesus Without Borders

Interview: "The Eternal Christ in the Cosmic Story" – NCR interview with Richard Rohr, OFM, December 11, 2009 http://ncronline.org/news/
spirituality/eternal-christ-
cosmic-story

Books: African Women, Religion, and Health: Essays in Honor of Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye – Isabel Apawa Phiri and Sarojini Nadar, eds. Orbis Books, 2006

How God Acts by Denis Edwards: “an account of divine action that is conscious of the picture of the world offered by modern science, but takes its lead both from the Christian revelation of God in Christ, the insights of Karl Rahner, and a modified Thomist metaphysics.” Fortress Press, 2010 -
read review on
http://www.amazon.com

The Altar in the World by Barbara Brown Taylor, 2009 - read the chapter called "The Practice of Wearing Skin" for insights into incarnational spirituality.

Remarks: Baptizing Deep Ecology by John Haughey (Woodstock Report 2009):
"Deep ecology triggers deep
incarnation."

Art: The Face of Jesus in Art, (DVD) KULTUR productions, available through amazon.com

The Illustrated Jesus through the Centuries by Jarislav Pelikan, 1997; chapter 5 is on the cosmic Christ with wonderful, large coloured plates.

Episcopal Café Art Blog: a wonderful collection of contemporary and classical religious art and commentary for our time. http://www.episcopalcafe.com
/art/

Galería de la Encarnación - a collection of images of the incarnation, mostly from the Global South - http://santoninojesus.org/
shcj.swf#galeria

Music: Heinrich Biber: The Rosary Sonatas

The Value of the Person

Interview: BBC Radio Four
interviews Nigerian author Chinua
Achebe on women, Nigerian
politics, democracy, sharia,
and more
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/
audio/38500000/rm/
_38500449_achebe.ram

Documentary films: on a
variety of themes: trafficking
of persons, HIV/Aids in
Washington,DC, sexual abuse
of girls in Zimbabwe, femicide
in Jordan, and the wisdom of
behind-the-scenes workers in
prestigious US universities
documentary films.pdf

Stories online: personal stories
of refugees, commercial
sex-workers, trafficked children,
victims of war and natural
disasters
Stories online.pdf

Feature films: Never Let Me Go
– from the novel by Kazuo
Ishiguro (2010)
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/
index.php
The Social Network – about the
founders of FACEBOOK (2010)
http://www.thesocialnetwork-
movie.com/

Books: The Tenth Parallel:
Dispatches from the fault
line between Christianity
and Islam by Eliza Griswold --
(Jos, Nigeria is located on
the tenth parallel) - read review -
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/
22/books/review/Robinson-t.html

The Spirit Level: Why Equality is
Better for Everyone by Richard
Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, 2010
– a study of the social effects of
inequality in a time of economic
crisis – read a review at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
books/2009/mar/13/the-spirit-level

"God was involved in our unfolding from the very start", by Diarmuid O'Murchu, National Catholic Reporter, January 25, 2011
http://ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/god-was-involved-our-unfolding-very-start

Living Commitment

Our new members speak:
ten sisters in first vows speak from their perspective as new members of the Society, about challenges facing religious life today, and their hopes for the future of Cornelia’s charism.
No single story.pdf

Magazine: C21 Resources: The Church in the 21st Century, Boston College – Fall 2010: The Vocations of the Laity C21ResourcesFA2010.pdf

Books: Living Baptism Daily by Lawrence E. Mick, Liturgical Press, ISBN: 0 8146 2965 2

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson, 2006 – this account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and hostile reaches of Asia can be read as a story of call and passionate response.

Let Your Life Speak by Parker Palmer - an exploration of the mystery of vocation for every stage of life.

TV: The Big Silence – 3-part series for BBC Television Two -- follows five people who have taken time out of their daily lives in an attempt to understand just why silence is so elusive and hard to attain in modern-day society – in collaboration with St. Beuno’s Retreat House and Worth Abbey – can be viewed online if you are in a region where BBC Player reaches

DVD: Jesus Calls Women: focus on women called to religious life in our time;2009 Wordnet Productions; Patricia Phillips, SHCJ, associate producer