{"id":676,"date":"2015-08-07T12:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T20:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/?page_id=676"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:56:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:56:35","slug":"god-creation-and-restoring-the-balance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/1st-21st-century-church\/god-creation-and-restoring-the-balance\/ponderings\/god-creation-and-restoring-the-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"God, Creation, &#038; Restoring the Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WGS-Kellys-B-day-Party-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WGS-Kellys-B-day-Party--225x300.jpg\" alt=\"WGS - Kelly's B-day Party\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WGS-Kellys-B-day-Party--225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WGS-Kellys-B-day-Party--768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/WGS-Kellys-B-day-Party--620x827.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Scholastic Papers by William G. Swanson<\/p>\n<p>Scholastic papers were written for his coursework T1990: God and Creation with Professor Kwok at Episcopal Divinity School.<\/p>\n<p>The object of Swanson&#8217;s paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Big-Burp-Theory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Big Burp Theory of Gardening in the Creative&#8217;s Stomach<\/a> as he aptly states, &#8221; is to present the Big Burp Theory as seen from the view of the Anglican Diver&#8217;s Mask. When we dialog with life as a living web of life on planet earth, sharing our relationship with Our Maker, we all, as living beings in a species and amongst species, work in dialog to make it right whether it be an oil spill or natural disaster. I hope we will take the path together, passing the outdated self-absorbedness or guilt-based drive, that is stuck in an invasiveness mode for our species or also denial of our roles past, present, and future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In his paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Feast-of-Saint-Basil-an-Agape%CC%81-Feast-of-Love-and-Trinity-Sunday-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Feast of Saint Basil, an Agape Feast of Love, and Trinity Sunday<\/a> . Three services are reviewed. One is a Eucharist for The Feast of St. Basil, in essence, a <i>Book of Common Prayer<\/i>, Rite II Eucharist. The second is a Liturgy for the Love Feast, Agape where the community gathers for a meal within a service. The third is a Church of England, New Patterns Eucharist, using the Episcopal lectionary. The first and third are Eucharists and the second is an early Christian common meal in a prayerful context.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scholastic Papers by William G. Swanson Scholastic papers were written for his coursework T1990: God and Creation with Professor Kwok at Episcopal Divinity School. The object of Swanson&#8217;s paper The Big Burp Theory of Gardening in the Creative&#8217;s Stomach as he aptly states, &#8221; is to present the Big Burp Theory as seen from the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/1st-21st-century-church\/god-creation-and-restoring-the-balance\/ponderings\/god-creation-and-restoring-the-balance\/\">Read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":2339,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/676\/revisions\/2341"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katrinasdream.org\/dreamscape\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}