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Throughout November of 2022, our content focused on diversity and the season of Advent. We’ll hear:

“The broken family of Black Panther” by Nathan Webb

https://www.umc.org/en/content/the-broken-family-of-black-panther-wakanda-forever 

“Why diversity in the church matters” by Madison Myers

https://www.umc.org/en/content/why-diversity-in-the-church-matters 

“Have we embraced diversity or tokenism?” by Joseph Yoo

https://www.umc.org/en/content/have-we-embraced-diversity-or-tokenism 

and

“What is Advent about?” by Ryan Dunn 

https://www.umc.org/en/content/what-is-advent-about 

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Gratitude is good. But Thanksgiving is an issue. We could consider a space for lament and healing. Mark Charles, co-author of Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery, shares a history of the Thanksgiving holiday and how we can instead make room for lament that offers healing.

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Learn how to utilize the contemplative practice of imaginative prayer.

This episode of Compass is an abbreviated one, as we’re working on what’s turning into a kind of double episode for next week. But in the meantime, we share another practice that leads into a deep sense of connection and helps broaden personal perspective beyond our own sense of self.

This practice is conveniently called Imaginative Prayer. There are likely a lot of variations on imaginative prayer. The particular variation we’ll utilize in this episode comes out of the Ignatian contemplative tradition.

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Throughout October of 2022, our content focused on changing the world around us. This edition of the audiomagazine features articles describing how we become personal agents of change, making small actions that provide big impacts. We’ll hear:

• “How you will change the world” by Joseph Yoo https://www.umc.org/en/content/how-you-will-change-the-world 
• “Creating a world-changing legacy” by Madison Myers https://www.umc.org/en/content/creating-a-world-changing-legacy
• “Netflix’s “The Midnight Club” Is More All Saints Day than Halloween” by Nathan Webb 
• https://www.umc.org/en/content/netflixs-the-midnight-club-is-more-all-saints-day-than-halloween 
• and “5 things we can about poverty” by Ryan Dunn https://www.umc.org/en/content/5-things-we-can-do-about-poverty 

 Let’s enter into our October 2022 edition of the Rethink Church audio magazine.

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According to Pew research, 62% of American Christians believe in hell. It’s actually hard to find topics that Christians agree upon more universally. But our beliefs about hell differ by a great degree: from it being a place of eternal torment to it being an ideal of separation. Where did our ideas about hell come from? Why might there be so many divergent beliefs about hell?

Let’s take a look…