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-<h1 class="title">We Can Be Heroes or Women of Faith in the Post-Biblical era</h1>
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-<p>We all have spent last couple of weeks following this series
-of awesome sermons about remarkable people of faith. I first
-thought that my task is the hardest one, to find one exceptional
-woman among millions of those who followed Jesus Christ in the
-post-Biblical times, but when listening to those sermons, it
-feels like I am not alone. Each one of us had a different task to
-pick one person from large set of candidates. However, I still
-believe that my task might be the most difficult one. Not only
-I am one of two preachers with the longest time period to pick
-from, but also the position of women was quite different during
-the ages than the one of men.</p>
-<p>Let’s try to start from this start. I am persuaded that one of the
-strongest motivators in our lives is our resistance to pain. We
-all have some kind of pain in our life, and our effort to get rid
-of that pain may be one of the strongest decisive factors for
-us. When the pain reaches sufficient threshold we are willing to
-do almost anything to get rid of it, without regards whether what
-we are doing is right, Christian, or even legal in many times. We
-know how many alcoholics, drug abusers, and even adulterers
-claimed that they what they were doing fully knowing it is wrong,
-but the pain they were trying to drown out was so strong, they
-give in. As Richard Rohr, a famous Franciscan spiritual leader,
-once said, “if we don’t transform [our pain], we will transmit
-it.”</p>
-<p>There are many different types of pain we can encounter in our
-lives, but I would like today only about one of them. Feeling of
-powerlessness. That feeling when we are facing ours or even more
-somebody else pain, and we cannot do anything about it, can lead
-many to serious depression, which we could try to oppose by going
-into some completely irrational and ungodly places.</p>
-<blockquote>
-<div class="line-block">
-<div class="line">Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat</div>
-<div class="line">something.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that</div>
-<div class="line">you know nothing about.” So the disciples began to say to</div>
-<div class="line">one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did</div>
-<div class="line">they?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of</div>
-<div class="line">the one who sent me and to complete his work. …”</div>
-<div class="line"><br /></div>
-<div class="line">(John 4:31-34)</div>
-</div>
-</blockquote>
-<p>There is only one antidote against this feeling of hopelessness,
-because of course it is always about the lack of hope in the
-end, and that is to do something. Think for example about the
-current war in Ukraine. For anybody who spent at least a little
-bit of time following the current news in the past two years, the
-impression is so strong, that it can completely crush our
-life. If we know somebody who has some significant links to
-the war, and we have some people like this in this church, the
-feeling is even stronger.</p>
-<p>For somebody the pressure is so high, they gave up their life
-and went to volunteer to Ukrainian army. I know about many Czech
-volunteers who are participating in some kind of charitable
-organizations which are helping people affected by the war in
-various ways. And of course, there are also many funds collecting
-many for supporting good work to those who suffer. Anybody has an
-opportunity to do something, and for your sanity, if this touches
-you, I would strongly suggest to do it.</p>
-<p>For centuries, for millennia, women never had even an opportunity
-to behave to do much, and they had to develop their own strategy
-how to deal with the pain of the world as they see it (and many
-men, often the most successful ones, learned that lesson as
-well).</p>
-<hr class="docutils" />
-<p>Which finally leads to one obscure woman I would like to talk
-about. Her name was Hannah More and she was living in the end of
-the eighteenth and the beginning of nineteenth century in England
-(specifically in Clapham). Move your mind to those times, think
-about novels by Jane Austen, and that for most women there was no
-chance how to achieve independently almost anything. Hannah More
-has one advantage above her sisters. She was engaged as was
-expected, but her betrothed was postponing the wedding for so
-long time (in the end more than five years) that in the end he
-decided to break the engagement and he got married to somebody
-else. I am not sure whether it was a legal requirement or just
-him being a decent man, given that after five years of waiting
-Miss More was almost ineligible to get another husband, he
-promised to her and paid an annual rent for the rest of her life,
-which allowed her to life a decent independent life. She never
-married, but used her life for changing her life.</p>
-<p>She became one of the founding members of what is now called
-The Clapham Sect, group of faithful Christians, members of the
-Church of England, who were guided by their faith to change the
-society according to their faith. Some of her opinions and goals
-are now hard to accept, times changed a lot, but she certainly
-achieved a lot. Her biggest personal achievement was founding
-of the first systematic school system for girls, she produced
-hundreds of pamphlets for education of literate poor, and one of
-her less direct achievements that she organized a group of people
-supporting William Wilberforce and persuaded him to pick up the
-cause of the abolition of slavery.</p>
-<p>When looking at her life there are couple of differences which I
-think can illustrate what I think is the main lesson we can learn
-for our life of everyday heroes.</p>
-<section id="get-power-v-love-and-help">
-<h2>Get power v. love and help</h2>
-<p>This is the basic difference in the life situations of man and
-woman in history. Well, actually, it is not only about women,
-because of course most of men in the past and mostly everybody
-today are not in the situation where they could leave everything
-and start changing the world.</p>
-<p>Still the primary of our society, even when we are not
-considering violent solutions, is to achieve some amount of
-power, and then use it for changing the world. One of two
-video-clips I hoped to run during this sermon, but then I decided
-to cut them because they were too long, was from the first part
-of the Lord of the Rings, where Boromir asks to take the evil
-ring of the Dark Lord Sauron to defend his country against the
-same evil. I am not saying that all politics is always evil, we
-need more Christians and other people of good will in politics to
-get out of the marasm we currently find ourselves, but it worries
-me how much we rely on this one way how to change things, and how
-complicated and dangerous it is.</p>
-<p>I am thinking about a Christian non-profit organization which
-used to work among young girls who were pregnant. They were
-organizing adoptions and care for pregnant girls trying to
-persuade them not to go with abortion. They used to have
-thos posters “Are you in a bad situation? We will help!”
-everywhere. Even though they were expressly Christian and
-opposing the mainstream attitude towards pregnancy and sexuality,
-they were quite respected and I believe they actually helped many
-girls in difficult situation.</p>
-<p>I don’t know what happened, perhaps they considered their
-previous work too small, or something, but they changed their
-complete strategy, turned towards politics, and the results
-are in my opinion complete disaster. Head of the organization
-made couple of some rather unfortunate statements, some of them
-sound quite homophobic, they started publish position papers,
-which were including some unverifiable statements and some really
-bad statistics and bad science. Once respectable organization is
-now a joke, and many people I asked about them told me that it is
-just another proove that “those Christians” are only after power
-and money. Jews have term “Chillul hashem” (desecrating the name
-of the God), which I am afraid applies here.</p>
-</section>
-<section id="take-over-v-link-encourage">
-<h2>Take over v. Link, encourage</h2>
-<p>Masculine tendency is to conquer, take over, defeat enemies.
-Another video I wanted to show was from a good Christian film
-“Amazing Grace” from 2006 about William Wilberforce, and how
-exactly Hannah More helped liberating slaves of the British
-Empire. Instead of fighting to get herself to the front, she
-linked together people who might be interested, and introduced
-them to William Wilberforce, who as MP then struggled with the
-future direction of his life after his conversion to Jesus. Given
-her previous experience with publishing books for the wide
-population, she helped to publish the autobiography by freed
-black slave, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah
-Equiano” (1789), which was the first testimony about the horrible
-life of slaves on the British plantations in Caribbean and which
-helped to turn the public opinion about the slavery in Britain.
-Till this day she is known for her other endeavours and her role
-in the abolition of slavery is usually mostly ignored.</p>
-<p>Is it more important to help or to be famous?</p>
-</section>
-<section id="radical-change-and-destruction-v-improving-do-whats-possible">
-<h2>Radical change and destruction v. Improving / do what’s possible</h2>
-<p>I didn’t want to get much into details about Miss More’s efforts,
-because some of them are now rather controversial. For example,
-education of girls was in her time so controversial idea, that
-for some time she was teaching just reading, not writing. We are
-in time of the French Revolution, and under the influence of
-Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, she
-decided to oppose the influence of the revolutionary propaganda
-by publishing hundreds of short stories for poor literate
-Englishmen (and Englishwomen, if she already managed to teach
-them reading) how they should be content with their life. Most of
-these books are now mostly ridiculous, but they illustrate her
-deep distrust to anything radical and revolutionary, even though
-many considered her to be revolutionary.</p>
-<p>It relates to me with another tendency which I could see on many
-people who actually changed for better, and that is relentless
-focus on their goal and willing to let go everything else. One of
-the reasons why Martin Luther in changing the world was exactly
-this keeping focus on changing the Church and letting everything
-else to go. Many people then and later were angry with him for
-not opposing and perhaps even encouraging bloody suppression
-of the German Peasants’ War by the German nobility. Looking
-from the other side, it was the only possible way how to keep
-establishment supporting changes in the Church, and that was the
-one thing he felt to be called to.</p>
-<hr class="docutils" />
-<p>To summarize, what are the lessons we can bring from observing
-life of our today’s heroine, Miss Hannah Moore?</p>
-<ol class="arabic simple">
-<li><p>One thing I don’t know about Miss Moore is her prayer life,
-but of course, when talking about looking at the needs in the
-current society, a prayer is the first thing which should be
-on our minds. If our food is to do the will of the one who
-sent us, we should better be certain that he actually send us
-to resolve the issue we see, and that it is not only our
-attempt to glorify ourselves or to sooth our conscience.</p></li>
-<li><p>Do you want to help or do you want to change the world? The
-latter quite often end in some kind of disaster.</p></li>
-<li><p>Is your central focus you helping or are you willing remain
-unknown and link together and encourage other people who may
-in the end be famous for something you started?</p></li>
-<li><p>Are you focused on your thing and you are willing to let other
-things go if they jeopardise your thing?</p></li>
-<li><p>Are you persuaded that “small work” (“práce drobná”, the
-phrase of the first Czechoslovak president Tomáš Garrigue
-Masaryk) is more fruitful and blessed than revolution and
-destruction?</p></li>
-</ol>
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