Jeri Gunderson
Can I sign This Song?
My presentation is an encounter with Psalm 129 and the Imprecatory Psalms in general; psalms that most of us would rather avoid at the least or wonder how this can be sacred scripture at best. The title " Can I Sing This Song?" asks the big question right away. In the presentation, I offer a way to approach all the Imprecatory Psalms and then apply the approach to this Psalm in particular. I do offer an answer to the title in the presentation. The major takeaways would be the way the reader can approach these difficult psalms, the example of that approach for Psalm 129, and, I think, my perhaps surprising conclusion that leads to deeper, introspective questions of all of us as we walk this earthly journey toward our forever home. I also offer Discussion Questions and include the interpretive method used in a handout.
Jeri is an aging former Montana farm wife, mother of 6, grandmother of 9. She and her family have served in ministry for the past 4+ decades first in Montana and then in missions in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, coming to the Philippines in 1987.
She has served as the Program Director for Community Development at the Alliance Graduate School and is currently Adjunct Professor of Community Development and Critical Pedagogy at the Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. She is also President of HELP International Ministries, Inc. and Founder/Director of Shiphrah Birthing Home.
Her passion for racial, gender, and economic justice has been shaped and sharpened entirely through her relationship with Christ and His Word as she has learned to live for Christ more fully here in Asia.
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