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MUSTARD SEED VENTURE RESOURCES

Loving Our Enemies: The Core of Jesus’ Vision in the Sayings Gospel Q (pdf)
By Robert Perry

This is a chapter Robert wrote for an academic collection called “The Healing Power of Spirituality: How Faith Helps Humans Thrive,” edited by J. Harold Ellens. In the Sayings Gospel Q, the opening sermon, which was the basis for Matthew’s Sermon on the Mount and Luke’s Sermon on the Plain, is largely a series of elaborations on the core injunction to “love your enemies.” This chapter is Robert’s attempt to draw out the meaning of this discourse on loving one’s enemies, and thereby to capture what may well be the heart of the historical Jesus’ vision. What we find there is something that, rather than being a somewhat primitive relic of the past, is radical and deeply challenging for any time, including our own.

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WEBSITES

Jesus Scholarship
• Five Gospel Parallels
• Historical Jesus Theories
• The Sayings Gospel Q — English Translation of the International Q Project
• The Jesus Seminar and the Westar Institute
• Q Web Materials
• Gospel of Thomas
• The Real Jesus of the Sayings Gospel Q (By James Robinson)
• The Search for a No-Frills Jesus (An article in the Atlantic Monthly about the Sayings Gospel Q)
• The Lost Sayings Gospel Q
• Living the Questions
• Arizona Foundation for Contemporary Theology
• Sanctuary Publications

Other
• Mother Teresa
• Eudist Servants of the 11th Hour (Mother Antonia)
• The Beloved Community (Martin Luther King)
• Jackie Pullinger’s Story
• Peace Pilgrim
• Dali Lama
• Society of Friends (Quakers)
• Jesus Rising
• NHNE Near-Death Experience Resource Center & Social Network
• Gandhi
• Communities for Compassion
• So All May Eat (Same Cafe)
•  Shroud.com

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READING

Jesus Scholarship
Robert W. Funk
• The Five Gospels

Bernard Brandon Scott
• Re-Imagine the World
• Hear Then the Parable

Marcus J. Borg
• Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
• Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
• The Last Week

James Robinson
• The Gospel of Jesus

Service
•  The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia’s Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail, by Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan
•  How Can I Help? by Ram Dass & Paul Gorman
•  Peace Pilgrim by Peace Pilgrim

Near-Death Experiences
Kenneth Ring
•  Lessons from the Light

Shroud of Turin
Robert Perry
• What Does the Shroud of Turin Mean? Article

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MOVIES

•  The Law of Love (Jackie Pullinger)
•  Les Miserables
•  Brother Sun, Sister Moon
•  Gandhi

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“To the one who asks of you, give;
and from the one who borrows, do not ask back what is yours.”

— Jesus, Q 6:30, The International Q Project