The lack of posts on this blog for over a year would appear to indicate an absence of presence and engagement – far from it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Praxis requires such a focus, at times that opportunity for written reflection is limited – whether through scarcity of time or through the diversion\/concentration of all one’s creativity demanded by the task in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dictionary tells me that the term ”praxis” is the word used to describe the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realised. “Praxis” , it goes on to explain, may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas. It has meaning in the political, educational, and spiritual realms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is not simply action based on reflection. It is action which embodies certain qualities. What might these qualities be, I wonder, in this place of cultural, faith and economic diversity in which I live? Respect for others; Empathy: Hospitality of space, conversation and spirit, which reaches beyond the comfortable and the known; Humility; and a Commitment to be consistently holding out Hope for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It occurs to me that praxis, in this context, involves an element of risk: the meeting people on the margins; the possibility of rejection; the crossing over borders\/boundaries of experience and ideas; the stretching beyond ones own horizons hitherto met; the reaching forward to the possible\/projected future – which attempts to inspire new ways of thinking, doing and of being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Praxis is creative, it is other-seeking and dialogic – and in these characteristics, as well as in the qualities and the risk entailed I see something of the Godhead displayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Title quote Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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