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    Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar: A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire
    Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar: A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire
    Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar: A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire
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    Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar: A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

    By Meg Gorzycki

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    This manual provides educators and retreat facilitators with questions for guided reflection and discussion, and with ideas about how to orchestrate conversations based on these reflections. The material illuminates some considerations instructors and facilitators may address as they plan for courses and retreats. This guide will help instructors and facilitators plan lessons and activities that aim to enrich scholarship, critical thinking, and personal spiritual development.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateOct 12, 2017
    ISBN9781532638305
    Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar: A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire
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    Meg Gorzycki

    Meg Gorzycki was raised in Minneapolis and schooled in the Benedictine and Jesuit traditions. She holds a BA in Religious Studies, an MA in History, and a Doctorate in Education. She has been a teacher, administrator, and faculty consultant, and has worked in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Her theological outlook blends Gnostic Christianity with Judaism, Buddhism, and Native American wisdom.

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      Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

      A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

      Meg Gorzycki

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      Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

      A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer’s Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

      Copyright © 2017 Meg Gorzycki. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3, Eugene, OR 97401.

      Resource Publications

      An Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W. 8th Ave., Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

      www.wipfandstock.com

      paperback isbn: 978-1-5326-3828-2

      hardcover isbn: 978-1-5326-3829-9

      ebook isbn: 978-1-5326-3830-5

      Manufactured in the U.S.A. February 13, 2018

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Chapter 1: The Curriculum

      Chapter 2: Caesar by Chapter

      Chapter 3: For the Historian

      Chapter 4: For the Theologian/Philosopher

      Chapter 5: The Prepared Instructor

      Chapter 6: For the Retreat Facilitator

      Appendix A: Sample Pre-Test for a Course Using Caesar Ate My Jesus

      Appendix B: Scholarly Journals

      Appendix C: Assimilation of Caesar Inventory

      Chapter 1

      The Curriculum

      General Objectives

      Caesar Ate My Jesus is unique because it weaves a narrative with four distinct threads: biography, history, theological commentary, and social criticism. In blending these topics, the author aims to represent how individuals experience their own spiritual journeys, as they daily synthesize experience, theological beliefs, social and political events, and cultural norms, and from time to time reflect upon them. The author hopes that readers may improve their awareness of how their daily experiences are connected to each other, and how each are potent with opportunities for spiritual growth and insight.

      As an instructional resource, the objectives for reading Caesar Ate My Jesus are both personal and academic. The personal motivation for reading of this book is to spark spiritual renewal through the examination of personal beliefs, attitudes, values, and habits. It is to explore how American ideas and social norms have influenced one’s spirituality for better or worse. The academic motivations to read this book is to explore American beliefs about faith and religion, and to consider their impact on domestic and foreign policy, with special attention to their impact on the most vulnerable populations. Readers are invited to compare and contrast the Kingdom of God and Caesar’s empire. They will be promoted to think about the meaning, function, and value of political realism, militarism, materialism, and imperialism. This monograph aims to arouse readers’ interest in exploring their own prophetic voices, which may be used to leaven the love of God into the world.

      This book is useful for courses in both religious and social studies, including course on:

      • Religion, the State, and Politics

      • Studies in American Culture and Ethics

      • Cold War Culture and Religion

      • Faith and Secular Life

      • Christianity, God, and the American Empire

      • Capitalism and Christianity

      • The Spiritual Narrative

      • The Prophetic Voice in Society

      • Faith in Times of Crisis

      • Social Justice

      • The Kingdom of God in a Pluralistic World

      • Baby Boomer’s America

      Engaging the Student

      As the ultimate goal of the text is to promote spiritual renewal through personal reflection and critical thinking about what Caesar’s world demands of us. Courses using this book should be designed to offer students abundant time for sharing ideas, reflecting on the experiences and insights of others, and articulating their thoughts. The following presents ideas for maximizing students’ understanding.

      Previewing

      Introducing students to courses and texts helps students create a set of expectations for course work and set their work in a meaningful context. Instructors may preview the text by providing a statement in the syllabus that speaks to the rationale for reading the text and offers tips on how to approach the narrative. Previews may also include an overview of American Cold War history, and commentary on the ideologies that prevailed during and since that time in America. Instructors should remind students that Caesar Ate My Jesus is not intended to speak for all boomers, all Christians, nor intended to represent a comprehensive history of the United States.

      Previews might also involve a pre-test. In this case, instructors may want to assess students’ knowledge of history, religion, economics, politics, and theological lexicon. The pre-test illuminates students’ knowledge deficits without generating a grade, and alerts the instructor to what kind of information students might need in order to succeed in the class. Appendix A offers a sample pre-test.

      Ice-breakers

      Since class discussions could become very personal and emotional, instructors may want to help students build familiarity and trust with each other. Ice-breakers are tools that facilitate this process. One such ice-breaker, the agreement circle, asks students to stand and move themselves to various positions according to whether they strongly agree (at the center of the circle) or strongly disagree (far from center), and anywhere in between relative to their feelings about each statement. These statements should be general and may include:

      • I was raised in a religious household

      • I believe in God

      • I have struggled with my family’s faith

      • I believe the Bible should be taken literally

      • I have changed my religion at least once in my life

      • On matters of public policy, people should keep religion out of the conversation

      • Capitalism is a morally neutral economic system

      • War is an immoral action

      • For the most part, America has overcome racism

      • For the most part America has overcome sexism

      • The news media in the U.S. has a strong liberal bias

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