This weekend is “Trinity” Sunday. I’ll let you in on a secret. I’ve never experienced a Trinity Sunday; it simply wasn’t part of my upbringing. I was raised in a church culture which held a stated belief in the Threeness
Well, as we all know today is the US presidential election. Everyone in this nation and many around the world are watching with bated breath to see what will happen in this country both today and in the days to
What makes theology practical is not the fitting of orthopedic devices to theoretical concepts in order to make them walk. Rather, theology occurs as a divine partner joins us on our walk, stimulating our reflection and inspiring us to recognize
A comment in a student’s paper this Spring has been lingering in the back of my mind. Dale Helt re-framed the classic Evangelical litmus-test question by exchanging the word “personal” for “communal.” The question, as he voiced it was, “Do
Many people have commented on the resurgence of Protestant Trinitarian writing and research post-Barth. In an era where the postfoundational, postcritical, postmodern, post-etc. reign supreme, objective propositional claims of truth no longer carry the weight they once carried with certainty.
In the modern era one of the most troubling theological enigmas was the Christian understanding of the Holy Trinity. Trying to wrap our little enlightened rational minds around how God could be one while simultaneously being three proved troubling indeed.
All the senses are vital to relationship. Yet the eye is arguably the most easily deceived; slight of hand, smoke and mirrors create illusions that feel true. Vision can only take a person so far. Its interesting to me that
Though I wouldn’t define myself as “process” or “open” theologian – I also wont say that I’m not a process or open theologian – by faith I believe God and humans can have a real relationship. That God walks with
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
Deborah Mashock is an active participant in our faith community, and a student at Mars Hill Graduate School in Bothell. She recently wrote a paper for one of her classes exploring Hosea 2:14-15 as an intimate look at the Divine/Human
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
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
