Jesus once proclaimed, “The truth shall set you free,” (John 8:32). His statement is in a section of the Gospel of John inviting us to feel the way Jesus’ identity was contested by his contemporaries. People were struggling to trust
Check out this short conversation about “truth” between Cornel West and Astra Taylor posted on Killing the Buddha. Like yours truly, Astra Taylor was born in Winnipeg, MB; she is the director behind Zizek, and the soon to be on
If you haven’t already done so, I highly recommend you invest a few moments looking some of the thousands of postcards posted on this site. Part of the reason I love it so much is that it reminds me that
I you have visited my site before you will know that I am in the process of constructing a more relational theology. Thomas Kuhn (The Structure of Scientific Revolutions) has helped us to see that anytime the is a paradigm
Chad raises an important point of for further discussion from my last post. I’d like to try to speak to it, but please recognize that I am still very much in process on this one… In my 12/13/2003 journal entry
Text always says what we are willing, or open to let it say at any given moment; it can never say more. By faith I sense that the Spirit am be inviting more… the Spirit seems to let the reality
A friend emailed a couple of questions yesterday: “What are the drawbacks to Post-Modernism? What are weaknesses within the ‘post-modern’ church?” Here are my efforts at a response… There are likely as many drawbacks to the pomo as there are
Points of doctrine, apologetics, reason, objective truth and being able to spout the right answers were the signs I used to show I was growing. If Truth is a person, as Jesus claims he is. Any the than maybe any
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
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
