Remembering Our Mothers
Sun, Dec 22nd 10:10am - 11am
Commons A/B
Gary United Methodist Church 224 North Main Street Wheaton, IL 60187

Remembering Our Mothers: The Women of the Infancy Narratives and Liberation Theology Sundays, Dec. 1–22, 10:10 a.m. led by Rev. Dr. Dong Hyeon Jeong This Advent Bible study invites participants to collectively remember and approach the presence of the women in the infancy narratives (Matthew and Luke) and in our lives as an expression of liberation theology. Such an approach liberates because to remember is to undo the oppressive machinations that trivialize and even erase the memories and presence of the marginalized. We will remember and reflect together by listening once again to the song of Mary with Indian surrogate mothers (Sharon Jacob), to the cries of Rachel with mothers who lost their children (Mitzi Smith), and to the joys of Elizabeth (and other women in the infancy narratives) with our own mothers and the women in our lives to whom we owe our lives and our well-being. The Rev. Dr. Dong Hyeon Jeong is the Assistant Professor of New Testament Interpretation and the Director of the Center for Asian/ Asian American Ministry at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He is an ordained elder/pastor of the United Methodist Church (Philippines Conference). His research highlights the importance of reading/interpreting the New Testament with social justice perspectives.