{"id":12496,"date":"2021-11-23T14:46:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.presbyterianfoundation.org\/?p=12496"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T17:22:32","slug":"how-to-resist-the-fear-and-outrage-that-is-being-encouraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/presbyterianfoundation.louderstaging.com\/ko\/resources\/news\/how-to-resist-the-fear-and-outrage-that-is-being-encouraged\/","title":{"rendered":"'\uc870\uc7a5\ub418\uace0 \uc788\ub294 \uacf5\ud3ec\uc640 \ubd84\ub178'\uc5d0 \uc800\ud56d\ud558\ub294 \ubc29\ubc95"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even in the midst of sabbatical, \u00a0Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell<\/a> was happy to join the Rev. Dr. Lee Hinson-Hasty for his Facebook Live show Leading Theologically on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cA hazard of sabbatical is I miss getting to talk theology with students and other professors. I\u2019m grateful to talk to you,\u201d she said, then added, \u201cI\u2019m sure the neighbors are really grateful too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hinson-Hasty, senior director for Theological Education Funds Development for the PC(USA)\u2019s Committee on Theological Education and the \uc7a5\ub85c\uad50 \uc7ac\ub2e8<\/a>, hosts Leading Theologically every other Wednesday at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. Watch Wednesday\u2019s conversation \uc5ec\uae30<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Shannon Craigo-Snell teaches Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. (Contributed photo)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Craigo-Snell joined the \ub8e8\uc774\ube4c \uc7a5\ub85c\uad50 \uc2e0\ud559\uad50<\/a> faculty in 2011 as a constructive systematic theologian. Her most recent book is \u201cDisciplined Hope: Prayer, Politics and Resistance.\u201d Listen to her discuss the book \uc5ec\uae30<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think theology has never been more important than it is now, especially among white Christians who are not racists or xenophobes,\u201d Craigo-Snell told Hinson-Hasty.<\/p>\n

According to Hinson-Hasty, \u201cDisciplined Hope\u201d continues the journey Craigo-Snell began in 2017 along with co-author Christopher J. Doucot in their book \u201cNo Innocent Bystanders: Becoming an Ally in the Struggle for Justice<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was an accidently written book,\u201d Craigo-Snell said of \u201cDisciplined Hope,\u201d and the two do in fact go hand-in-hand, she said. \u201cMany of us engaged in politics or justice work know how draining that can be. You can\u2019t sustain it well without spiritual disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n

Craigo-Snell said the 2016 election demonstrated to her \u201cthere are people and forces who realize\u201d the \u201camount of money to be made and the power to be garnered by making people afraid and outraged.\u201d But being faithful \u201cincludes resisting the posture of outrage and fear.\u201d Her response was to begin writing a hopeful or joyful prayer each day and posting it on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat happened was, all kinds of people started joining me,\u201d she said. One of her children reported a friend\u2019s family was using Craigo-Snell\u2019s prayers at dinnertime, \u201cand they aren\u2019t Christian.\u201d She got a call from a group of peace protesters in North Carolina seeking prayers for their work. Those prayers were of course offered through the online community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis community merged virtually,\u201d Craigo-Snell said. It made her think that \u201cI\u2019m not the only one needing to find ways to resist the fear and outrage that is being encouraged.\u201d<\/p>\n

A premise of \u201cDisciplined Hope\u201d is that hope is a virtue. Another word for virtue is habit, Craigo-Snell said, \u201cand a metaphor for that is it\u2019s a muscle. It\u2019s the discipline that we don\u2019t just wait for the things that make us hopeful. We practice being hopeful every day.\u201d Hope is \u201cmore than optimism\u201d or \u201cthinking this will work out fine. Christian hope is living in the knowledge that God can do a new thing. How do we do that every day?\u201d<\/p>\n

That reminded Hinson-Hasty of \u201c\uafc8\uc758 \ud544\ub4dc<\/a>.\u201d \u201cPray the hope and it will come,\u201d he said. \u201cYour light of hope is lighting others\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDisciplined Hope\u201d has two parts, Craigo-Snell said. The first is a reflection on what prayer is. The second part is a journal of daily prayers \u201cwhich are oddly a historical chronology of the ways people in the U.S. resisted our worst instincts\u201d following the 2016 election.<\/p>\n

Like Dietrich Bonhoeffer<\/a>, \u201cyou were writing in the midst of a difficult time,\u201d Hinson-Hasty told her. \u201cHow do we make it through when it gets hard? I feel that\u2019s so much of the story of the Christian life.\u201d<\/p>\n

After thanking Hinson-Hasty for the flattering comparison, Craigo-Snell called seeking hope \u201ca choice, and the thing about choices is, they form us.\u201d One chooses drinking water instead of soda. Eventually, \u201cit doesn\u2019t occur to you to drink soda anymore,\u201d Craigo-Snell said. \u201cThe bigger things in life work similarly. We practice our choices until they become part of us, and I think that is particularly true among spiritual disciplines. They form us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked to name other choices to which God is calling her, Craigo-Snell mentioned Scripture first. \u201cThe more chaotic things seem, the more I need to return,\u201d she said. The second is bluntness. \u201cThe time for nicety was a long time ago,\u201d Craigo-Snell said. \u201cBeing polite is how oppression keeps going. It\u2019s time for Christians of good faith \u2026 to be really blunt, to use words like \u2018racism\u2019 and \u2018white supremacy\u2019 and \u2018Jesus\u2019 and \u2018resurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s be honest, authentic and truthful,\u201d Hinson-Hasty said. \u201cIf I hurt your feelings, let\u2019s talk about that.\u201d<\/p>\n

A companion discipline is learning to apologize, Craigo-Snell said. \u201cWe practice apologizing every Sunday. I got it wrong, this is not what God intended, I am sorry and I will try to do better next week. Then we have so much trouble during the other six days of the week \u2026 Telling the truth as plainly as possible goes hand in hand with needing to apologize.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have resources and friends,\u201d Hinson-Hasty reminded the listening audience. \u201cYou are not alone.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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