Brief Sales Pitch
Rev Dr Brian Wilkinson
081 270 1713
Retired minister of the Methodist Church
and an ethicist on economic ethics
Grace …
At last my website is working. Blogs will be a regular feature again. Books are now ready for sale with those with Rand denomination. It is an electronic book for your computer or for mobile use. Here is what is on offer:
Gemors
“The real life of Brian” with apologies to Monty Python. My theology does break through the fun of life in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, if only to tell you God created for fun just to annoy religion.
Learn to Love
Before Christians can become activists learning love of self, God, the cockroach and others is a prerequisite. Taking Life Line principles and psychotherapy seriously, all people and nature will learn to love.
Mending Fences
This ontological retreat produces ubuntu. Here the love finds transcendence in a practical way for people to live in harmony. Marriage, democracy, the worker-owned co-operative and sustainability work only because people know how to transcend freedom and equality … the genius of ubuntu.
Rooted
This book details a very different encounter with God, like wrestling Jacob. In phases of the mind people learn to cut out ideologies and idols. It is a clearing up of alien thinking. This positions us next to God. At the same time a contemplative action fixes us towards the ultimate (truth, beauty, justice or God). When God does break through an attitudinal change in us forces us to act on the encounter with God.
Grace Gardens
I tested the above encounter with God in Rooted in the parables of Jesus. In the so-called ‘agricultural’ parables I find that grace is the way Jesus works and that we are given an example of the gracious life in the person, Jesus.
Gracious Gandhi
I tested the above encounter with God in Rooted in the life of Mahatma Gandhi. With one or two exceptions, I find that Gandhi was gracious and like Jesus is a model for the gracious life.
Common wealth
In my retirement, I went through all my stuff and discovered a series of books I wrote for the Theological Education by Extension College (TEEC). I think the content with the above stuff is perfect for this modern world of godlessness. I am inviting people to join me in setting up ashrams beyond religion to encounter God to change the world for justice. I am starting this week-end at my home church suggesting we start in a small way.
Peace …
Brian
