As Christ-followers we say we trust the Spirit to guide us into all truth. Which we have collapsed into something we have come to label Orthodoxy… why is orthodoxy such a big deal? Is the Spirit untrustworthy? Unreliable? I wonder
One of my areas of interest has to do with the essence of relationship. What is a relationship? How… When… Who… Unto… Why… etc. So far I have feel like my relational imagination is being expanded by attending to Augustine’s
Let me start off by saying that I am a person in transition. I was raised in a fundamentalist dispensational post-Mennonite evangelical church, throughout college and seminary I shifted to a more reformed position, and now I am finding myself
Jesus preached the gospel but it wasn’t Jesus’ preaching that that made people take note. Jesus preformed the gospel – making the blind to see and the lame to walk but it wasn’t Jesus’ performance of the gospel that made
There is a lot of talk of moving beyond “deconstruction” to reconstruction. Of course it goes almost without saying that when the predominate tide shifts from deconstruction to construction or even reconstruction we will have moved to post-postmodernism. Because we
I just picked up this collection of essays by Derrida, Milbank, Ward, Kearney and others. , “Questioning God” edited by Caputo, Dooley and Scanlon. Free Sample What does it mean to Forgive in a postmodern age? If forGIVEness is a
The offspring of paradox are faith, doubt and certainty. Certainty looks at paradox and says, “they can’t both be true. I will take sides. I will exercise my mind and my reason to confidentially claim my argument as true. I
A Prayer of Unknowing by Thomas Merton My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really
A Discourse on Method: The Communion of the Holy Trinity as the Basis and Logic of Christian Theology by Baxter Kruger. See www.perichoresis.org Peace, dwight
When you read the Bible you open yourself up to encountering God through the stories of our spiritual mothers and fathers, offering a glimpse into their experience of God’s story. You’re not simply learning facts or trivia or reading just
Growth as a child of God; how is it measured? One of the metaphors I was raised with that no longer serves me is the metaphor I refer to as, ” the steady, uphill climb.” It’s the idea that though
