I got to see a band last night that I’ve been wanting to see for a long time–Psalters. They played on a small Mennonite farm in Central Pennsylvania. I’m So glad I attended.
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Sex is tragic and comical.
Nothing will stop sex being tragic and comic. It is above all the area of our lives where we can be rejected in our body entirety, where we can venture into the “exposed spontaneity” that Nagel talks about and find ourselves looking foolish or even repellent, so that the perception of ourselves we are offered…
The Risk of Love
It is not Jesus’ death that transforms but his life–a love life that had the power to persist beyond death, as the stories of the resurrection mysteriously suggest. Granted, that mystery has been almost ruined by dogmatic “I believes.” But for those with ears to hear afresh–the purpose of a Christian life is not whatever…
Violence Is So Primitive
This is Just a quick thought about violence. As I was in the process of thinking about conflicts, how and why they occur, and how they can be resolved, I’ve come to the conclusion (probably not an original one) that violence is truly primitive. I think about this subject often and feel passionately about it…
Agapic Justice
I believe that if societies continue to view fairness, equality, and merit as the characteristics of justice, injustice will continue to prevail everywhere. I believe we need we a new logic focusing on relationality made explicit in solitude or care, characterized by tenderness and resulting in reconciliatory praxis. –Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz Painting by Tristen Henry-Wilson
If your faith and doctrine are like a beautiful house, DO NOT READ THIS!
If your faith and doctrine are like a beautiful house, with the clean lines of certainty and the firm foundation of God’s Truth, then letting me into your house would be, I’d expect, quite unsettling. Because I’d always be looking at a wall and saying “Is this a load bearing wall? Let me knock it…
Pessimism Is Not Brave
“Pessimism is an attitude that may look brave—and I think this is really quite interesting—because there are certain people who propose it with a rather macho stance, you know: ‘I’m tough enough to see the facts!’ But it’s actually a very cowardly way of dealing with the world. Because if you only think that things…
Communion in the agony of Christ
“The Christian hope that is “not seen” is a communion in the agony of Christ. It is the identification of our own agonia with the agonia of the God Who emptied himself and became obedient unto death. It is the acceptance of life in the midst of death, not because we have courage, or light,…
With surplus, comes starvation.
If you perceive the universe as being a universe of abundance, then it will be. If you think of the universe as one of scarcity, then it will be. And I never thought of the universe as one of scarcity. I always thought that there was enough of everything to go around–that there are enough…
Emergence Christianity and Dualistic Thinking
We thought that we overcame racism in the 60’s; we thought the church overcame triumphalism at Vatican II, and now forty years later we are right back into this regressive and dualistic thinking all over again. This is the nature of the ego if we have not formed a contemplative mind, a big mind, that…