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
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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…
we should love them in order to know them
Not that love dispenses with knowing or requires some sacrifice of intelligibility, but love becomes, instead of and in the place of intuitus, the keeper of evidence, the royal road to knowledge: “When speaking of things human, we say that we should know them before loving them—a saying which has become proverbial. Yet the saints,…
My Big Problem With Sin
I am at an interesting place right now in regard to thinking about the subject of sin. After hearing sermon after sermon on the subject, reading book after book, having conversation after conversation, I’m convinced of pretty much one thing: For me, the biggest problem that human beings have with sin, is that we try…
Why I’m A Hypocrite
This is a developing thought that has influences which are vast. It’s the kind of idea that rattles around with no place to go. So I thought I’d share it, no matter how incoherent it may be. The idea is simple: I’m not afraid to be a hypocrite. It’s true that traditionally, being hypocritical is…
What theology needs is more copulation.
What theology needs is more copulation. And postmodern theopoetics may well provide it. The word copulation, of course, denotes coupling: the bringing together and/or union of two things. The related words “copula” and “copulative” are grammatical terms, used to describe the linking of elements in a sentence. How unfortunate, then, that the fertile term copulation…