Taron Shekara-shekara na 223 na Cocin Yan'uwa
San Diego, California - Yuni 26, 2009
"Muna son yin tsayayya da canji, musamman a fannin tsarki. Amma, Yesu ya canza, ”in ji Margaret Gray Towne, mai gabatarwa a Voices don budaddiyar abincin dare.
Towne, marubucin Gaskiya ga Farawa: Kalubalen Littafi Mai Tsarki da na Kimiyya ga Halittu tana da kusanci da Cocin Brothers tun 1963, lokacin da ta koyar da ilimin halittu a Kwalejin Juniata da ke Huntingdon, Pa. Ta dawo a matsayin farfesa mai ziyara a kimiyya da addini a 1999.
Towne na murna da sababbin ra'ayoyin da kimiyya suka bamu - ra'ayoyin da ke murna da ikon Allah. Sabbin ra'ayoyi suna da wahala, amma su ne yadda muke haɓaka da girma, in ji ta. Ta yi nuni da cewa majami'u suna sukar binciken Galileo da Copernicus, sai dai don neman gafarar masanan daga baya.
Yayin da muke koyo da kuma bikin sababbin ra'ayoyi, Towne ya jaddada mahimmancin tawali'u a cikin dangantaka da juna. Sau da yawa ba ma ɗaukar labarin gabaɗayan, don haka dole ne mu aiwatar da “ajiye hukunci.” Tsare hukunci wani aiki ne da Towne ke ƙarfafawa a cikin kwas ɗin da take koyarwa akan tunani mai zurfi. "A matsayinmu na Kiristoci," in ji Towne, "ya kamata mu yi kuskure a gefen ƙauna."
Babu ɗayanmu da ke da dukan gaskiya, in ji ta, ta ce yayin da muke koyo, muna bukatar mu kasance masu tawali’u. Muna da ra’ayi da ra’ayi dabam-dabam, amma muna bukatar mu ƙaunaci juna, in ji Irmiya 33:3 cewa: “Ku yi kira gare ni, ni kuwa in amsa muku, in faɗa muku manyan abubuwa da ɓoye waɗanda ba ku sani ba.”
Towne yayi maganar soyayya iri biyu: “saboda” soyayya, da kuma “duk da” kauna. Muna ƙaunar wasu sau da yawa "saboda" kamancen mu da haɗin kai da su. Yesu ya ƙaunace mu “duk da” kasawarmu. “Muna bukatar mu so junanmu duk da bambance-bambancen da ke tsakaninmu da kuma tafiyar rayuwarmu daban-daban. A cikin majami'u, haɗin kai yana zuwa gare mu ta hanyar 'duk da' ƙauna." Ta kara da cewa ta hanyar bambance-bambancen mu muna kara fahimtar juna da Allah.
"Ba ma bukatar zama uniform, amma muna bukatar a hade," ta jaddada.
Towne ya rufe da kalmomi daga sanannen waƙa, “Mu ɗaya ne cikin ruhu, mu ɗaya ne cikin Ubangiji…. kuma za su san mu Kiristoci ne ta wurin ƙaunarmu, ta ƙaunarmu.”
–Melissa Troyer daga Middlebury (Ind.) Church of the Brothers ne kuma memba ne na kwamitin Cocin ’yan’uwa kan dangantakar Interchurch.
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Ƙungiyar Labarai don taron shekara-shekara na 2009 ya haɗa da marubuta Karen Garrett, Frank Ramirez, Frances Townsend, Melissa Troyer, Rich Troyer; masu daukar hoto Kay Guyer, Justin Hollenberg, Keith Hollenberg, Glenn Riegel, Ken Wenger; ma'aikatan Becky Ullom da Amy Heckert. Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, edita. Tuntuɓar cobnews@brethren.org.