I just read a great article by Bob Mesle over at Patheos (HT Tripp Fuller) in which he discusses why Process Theology matters. One of the things I love most about Process Theology is it’s view on God’s power. Power has always been a huge issue for me. I’m fully convinced that, as Jacques Ellul…
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2009 and feelin’ fine
I’ve only been blogging since August of 2009 (what’s that, like five months?), but I felt left out because all of the blogs I read are posting their 2009 top ten lists. So, like my friend Dan, I thought I would post my top five favorite posts of 2009. Enjoy! #5) What is a Friend:…
The Politics of Martyrdom
I’m about two pages into the forward of Tripp York’s book The Purple Crown: The Politics of Martyrdom and I now know that I was right to be excited about finally getting it in the mail yesterday. This from the forward by John D. Roth Through their patient, nonviolent suffering, Christian martyrs expose the futility…
Karen Armstrong Believes That Religion and Art are Allies
Religion was never supposed to provide answers to questions that lay within the reach of human reason… Religion’s task, closely allied to that of art, was to help us to live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there were no easy explanations and problems that we could not solve; morality, pain, grief,…
Karen Armstrong Believes That Religion and Art are Allies
Religion was never supposed to provide answers to questions that lay within the reach of human reason… Religion’s task, closely allied to that of art, was to help us to live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there were no easy explanations and problems that we could not solve; morality, pain, grief,…
Much Fear and Trembling
What Luther discovered, which we too often hide from, is the theological and existential discovery that God is crucified, that the monster takes God, that death and separation destroy God. And this is not to be celebrated, but despaired. Just like Paul, we are in much fear and trembling. For Luther, like Nietzsche, God is…
Social Justic vs. Divine Justice
That biblical vision of a world-for-all did not come from our modern ideas of democratic power or our contemporary claims about human or civil rights. It did not come from liberalism, socialism, or communism. In recognizing its challenge we are not retrojecting any of that modernity back onto antiquity. A world-for-all came, if one needs…
Much Fear and Trembling
What Luther discovered, which we too often hide from, is the theological and existential discovery that God is crucified, that the monster takes God, that death and separation destroy God. And this is not to be celebrated, but despaired. Just like Paul, we are in much fear and trembling. For Luther, like Nietzsche, God is…