Up a Tree

The little fella above, with a litter mate hidden behind the tree were struggling with the lessons which they had learned a few days previous. Linda had watched a mother raccoon teaching her kits how to open – and close – our cooler. Fortunately we secure our dry storage and coolers with stretching that the raccoons cannot undo (although they did eat through one of two on the cooler).

The two kits above were now on their own. The lessons were over. They had to forage on their own. Life was not as easy as they hoped – for they had been scared up the tree. The human with the camera was not helping matters. Shortly after this photo was taken they did get back on the ground.

Relfections on General Council Excutive

Reading David Hewitt’s tweets as he attended General Council executive reminded me of a lecture I heard at AST late 2004 or early 2005. Dr. Marsha Hewitt of the Toronto School of Theology questioned the usefulness of Post-Modernity for doing theology. David tweeted after a presentation about Post-Modernity. My fear is that the United Church may be getting caught in a past world.

In the fall of 2005 I went to Mount Allison Universality in Sackville, New Brunswick as Interim Chaplain. There I listened to students reflecting on how out of touch their professors were when they talked about post-modernity.

This has led me to conclude that the time known as Post-Modernity is over. That it served as a time of cultural liminality leading to the neo-modern world of the 21 ^st century. Finding a place in that neo-modern world is the challenge for the church.