Journeys by Heart by Rita Nakashima Brock

If you look closely you might even see her in the hit blockbuster movie Spiderman 3. She has over 20 years experience in the acting/directing/writing world and she uses her experiences in her style of writing today. She was the Creative Director of the former ministry GodLight International where she wrote, directed and acted in productions and she traveled to Quito, Ecuador, local colleges and conferences to teach young women about the importance of purity, self image and God's purpose. In the past Angie has spent her time volunteering as the Drama Director of her church. Hence sin is a sign of our brokenheartedness, of how damaged we are, not of how evil, willfully disobedient, and culpable we are.Angie Marino-Smith is the founder and writer of the online blog, where women of all ages can come to talk about the hot topics that they deal with in today's world. Sin emerges because our relationships have the capacity to destroy us and we participate in destruction when we seek to destroy ourselves or others. But we are, by nature, vulnerable, easily damaged, and that vulnerability is both the sign of our connectedness and the source of the damage that leads us to sin. This ontological relational existence, the heart of our being, is our life source, our original grace. I am suggesting that sinfulness is neither a state that comes inevitably with birth nor something that permeates all human existence, but a symptom of the unavoidably relational nature of human existence through which we come to be damaged and damage others…If we begin with an understanding that we are intimately connected, constituted by our relationships ontologically, that is, as a basic unavoidable principle of existence, we can understand our brokenness as a consequence of our relational existence. I believe understanding sin as damage enhances responsibility and healing instead of miring us in blame and guilt. While feminists are not naïve about human evil and suffering, we understand sin as historically and socially produced, which requires us to take responsibility for understanding and stopping oppression and suffering. Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power by Rita Nakashima Brock

Journeys by Heart by Rita Nakashima Brock