The Corporate Memory

• Deuteronomy 6:21 (TNIV)

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The Desert Way of Spirituality/Christianity recognizes the importance of remembering, and moreover, "We are not only urged to remember our own past, but to enter contemplatively into a corporate memory that guards healing stories of salvation." - Alan Jones, Soulmaking (p. 51)

I love that the answer to the children's question in this verse (21) is collective - though time would prove that the following generations were NOT, in fact, slaves in Egypt -except in the social imagination, the collective story.

For this is even our story, we were slaves in Egypt.

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