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...well here we are...the beginning of a new term...with new beginnings...new ideas...new challenges...new struggles...new joys...and this is the new lifetrack blog...

...at the school of theology we want to encourage you to continue to mull over the thoughts and challenges that have been provoked each week and not just to confine those thoughts to the given three hours on a saturday...

...and this is just an opportunity for all of us who are attending the lifetrack stream to "meditate" on what been discussed that week...

..each week i will start a conversation about the previous saturday's teaching and if you feel led to, we'd love to have you contribute by simply clicking reply...

...but don't let it stop there...if there's an issue you have been wrestling with for a while and is related to the lifetrack then feel free to begin a new discussion...

...so all that remains is to say i hope we have a great term together and let the conversation begin...
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Submitted by lifetrack on October 25, 2006 - 9:49pm.
Did you read about Muhammad Yunnus winning the Nobel peace prize for his role in promoting financial services for the poor ? The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh which Muhammad created developed what "had appeared to be an impossible idea", namely loans to people who lack collateral.  i thought about our discussion last saturday and one of the questions so hard to answer - what does a Christ-like use of power look like?  I think this is an example. Though presumably not in the name of Christ, Yunnus turned an obscure idea about alleviating poverty into a sizeable institution empowering women and the disenfranchised.  Christ so connected with the poor and oppressed, I can't help but think that when he said, "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." (Luke 4:18-19)
Some of that good news for the poor is at the Grameen bank of Bangladesh....
Anastasia
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