Overview
The primary purpose of the exercise is to build confidence in the ability you already have to interpret a "text," and to reveal some of the challenges when we don't know the full "backstory."
Instructions
Strangely enough, one of the best practices or "labs" for successfully interpreting a text (including the Bible) is by remembering and rehearsing something you already do well: Interpreting a song. When we listen to/read a new song for the first time, it is a great practice in reading and interpreting a "text" using the Three Worlds.
I assume the song below will be a new song to many of you, if not all of you. Good; it was the same way with Philemon. At least this week, you have the lyrics, as you do in the Bible.
This song tends to help with Philemon, We will tell why next week!
There are no second first reads. You will see/hear things that I miss. And it's okay of you feel you don't get much. Use the usual skills: recurrences? mood? theme? storyline? characters? clues as to message/backstory that occasioned it?
Lyrics and music below. Don't Google or research the song. Just listen, read, and make notes below. Include what you would guess the song is about (be as specific as possible: who and what is being addressed, what's happening
First, watch the first version of the song, and comment below on what you caught: lyrics, repeated words, any clues to theme, mood, story, characters. Do not Google the song until next week when we debrief this.
Then be prepared , watch the second version of the song in. . Make comments there, especially about how the two versions compare and contrast: has anything been changed or moved? Is one happier? Which one do you like better and why? Which would be better for church?
Lyrics and music below. Don't Google or research the song. Just listen, read, and make notes below. Include what you would guess the song is about (be as specific as possible: who is being addressed, what's happening)
Version A
Morning, your toast
Your tea and sugar
Read about the politician’s lover
Go through the day
Like a knife through butter
Why don’t you
You dress in the colours of forgiveness
Your eyes as red as Christmas
Purple robes are folded on the kitchen chair
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like someone else’s suicide
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Dreams
It’s a dirty business, dreaming
Where there is silence and not screaming
Where there’s no daylight
There’s no healing, no no
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Hope is where the door is
When the church is where the war is
Where no one can feel no one else’s pain
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
In your dreams everything is alright
Tomorrow dawns like a suicide
But you’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Like a bird, your dreams take flight
Like St. Francis covered in light
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
VERSION B:
You'll remember from our look at the TWO creation stories and the TWO sets of Ten Commandments, that when we have two texts, it is helpful to compare and contrast.
Here is an alternate version of the same song as part a ). The lyrics are different; music mostly the same.
Read and listen, and then post below. do NOT do any research, just what you pick up.
Address;
- Similarities, differences between the two
- Which version do you like better and why?
- What you think this version is about: who is speaking to who, what is the story and situation?
Wake
In the morning when you wake up
You won’t have much
But you’ll have enough
When you are weakest
I’ll be strong enough for you
Dreams
Yeah, the ones where you are fearless
Can’t break what’s broken
You are tearless
Steal back your innocence
That’s what they stole from you
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight
Stop
Where you stand right now
Just stop
Don’t think or look down at the drop
The people staring from the street
Don’t know what you’ve got
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
No, not everything can be so black and white
There are demons in the broad daylight
But you can sleep like a baby tonight
Hope is where the door is
When home is where the war is
Where nobody can feel no one else’s pain
You’re gonna sleep like a baby tonight
Not everything can be so black and so white
There are demons in the broad daylight
You’ve got to sleep like a baby tonight
Sleep like a baby tonight
Where you stand
Where you fall is where I kneel
To take your heart back to where you can feel
Like a child, a child
Overview
This is a quick self-test to let you know how you might do on your signature paper with mechanical errors. Remember, papers cannot be accepted if they have mechanical errors in every paragraph. Also, remember no use of "you"/"your" or contractions in signature.
(if you didn't do it last week)
Instructions
Watch thisLinks to an external site.
short video, and LOL at Dave.
As you'll remember, for Bib classes, there are two big rules on signature papers:
--you can't use "you" (or "you words like"your" or "yourself")
--you can't use contractions.
Also, if there are red marks in every paragraph for mechanical (grammar, spelling, etc), your paper will need to be rewritten before it is accepted.
Don't look at the self-grading video until done.was the most important leader mentioned in the bible. Not only was he an
Apostle, but the most prominent and clear headed one ever mentioned by
God in his Word. Maybe the most prominent character in Christianity’s
history. Due to his special calling, his ability to face prosecution and abuse,
his status as an Elder and his great Faith, he ranks highly, even though he is
not one of the original 12 Disciples, and wasn’t even mentioned in the
Biblical texts that discuss Jesus’s earthly days.
United States—or more appropriately, the Senior Pastor of a large church or
the Bishop of a denomination. Think of him like a modern Saint, a person
that has great Spiritual courage and skill. A person that loves God and His
ways. Which makes him all the more remarkeable in the way he treated
Onesimus’s owner, Philemon. Philemon was a humble man, that had a
Church in his house, and that owned Philemon as a slave. In its own
unique way, the paradox of Paul the great leader being kind and
compassionate to people of lower Economic status like Onesimus (a lowly
Slave) shows that he was also a great sheperd not one who would Lord it
over people. He had no allusions of being the King.
key players in a story with abundent lessons for our day. In a funny verse,
the Bible says "a dog returns to it's own vomit." Thinking about an
animal being attracted to there own vomit is a strong image and thought
provoking. This remind's me of the religous leaders Jesus confronted in the
Temple. One Sunday, my Pastor preached on this. Matthew 11:15, " Jesus
said, "My house shall be a House of prayer, but you have made it a den of
robbers." When people think they're more imporatnt then others based on
Religion or Race, the affect is divine anger. I have thought alot about why
Followers of God would ever think they are holier then other people. Or
how they could justify hating a person that was innocent or poorer then
them. It's a mystery to me, and a headscratching one at that. I sometimes
literally loose my mind over things like these.
Think about someone that dessecrated the Alter of a Church, or think's it's
alright to have a prejudist attitude. What an extordinary embarassment for
priviledged people to act that way; witholding grace from a person that is in
need. Our professor talked about this one day when we did a practise for this
signature assignment.
Post a sentence about how you did.
The first half of the film takes you through 54 minute :35 second mark in the YouTube you see here, That is, stop after the audience throws soap, and Bell asks "Are there any Johnny Cash fans here?").
We will watch second half next week under 5.4, so click there if you want to watch the whole thing at once, and see the questions for the second half.
(OR you can split up the two parts of this movie any way you like, as long as you finish it be next week . It's designed for you to watch half this week, and half next, but do what works best for you: none this week, all next; some of the first half now, the rest bext week, anyway combo is OK)
Note: As an alternative, you are welcome to post a video where you orally give the same content, instead of writing it here.
See questions to include somewhere in your response below.
--Include a comment about insulators.
-- From the intro: Note the way he told the Prodigal Son story . Why do you think Jesus told it that way? What might all this have to do with the theme of suffering?
--Include a comment about insulators.
--What did he say about text and context?
--What is the first art of suffering? . What (specifically) might you remember a year from now from this section, and why? Do your best to give a personal story or example that came to mind of how you have seen this art in your own life.
--What is the second art? . What ( specifically) might you remember a year from now from this section, and why? Do your best to give a personal story or example that came to mind of how you have seen this art in your own life
---Before watching the 2nd half of the film next week (Or whenever you watch it), guess now what the other 4 arts of suffering might be. No worries if you don't guess correctly--your answers might be better than his! Here's some clues (first letters). They are all one word each; and it might help to think of them as (sometimes) sequential. Clues below (they are all one word, and first letter given). Post (or write down your guesses)
Part one:
D
H
E
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Part 2:
S
P
F
This is an extra cred .Such excellent work interpreting both versions of the "Sleep Like a Baby" song.
Usually, NO ONE specifically posted the specific kind of "historical world" situation that the song is about. Read this quote by the songwriter about the song on the video screenshot below.. Then play the video where I give the reveal. Sure miss having class discussions, so love to hear some comments in response about the reveal. You can post below if you are reading this . Optional, but extra cred if you comment on the reveal, why most never see the "open secret," what you learn about interpreting a text, and the shocking and subversive subject matter of the song.
Also, usually 1-2 students per class find they have had this song on their phone or computer for years and didn't know it!! Play the video to find out why, then search your phone (:
