so i'm going to geek out about something right now. fair warning. recently i've been mourning the way our bibles constrain us to read them. they been so battered, first by liturgical setting and then by private devoti…
on reflection, i think the basic is christian stance is one of confusion. if we identify with the disciples more than anyone else (perhaps after Jesus), then confusion is our fundamental response to God's revelation of …
i am reading eugene peterson. i never thought i would. i never thought i would enjoy it. i never thought i would be challenged. but i am. there are parts of my evangelical identity that i hate, that i hate very much.…
this post will be unfortunately all too abstract. lately i have reflected on the way i think about my faith. i think about it in articular concepts that often end in -tion or a host of genitive modifiers. simply put: …
some thoughts about change: things are bad the way the are now. we can all agree to that. amen? and the gospel is about change, about love and about redemption. so what does this mean? part of being the church (tha…
[A]s Wesley Kort argues, reading any text (let alone the biblical text) as scripture is not always a "pleasant" experience: As long as we do not read our scriptures as texts or texts as scriptures our locations and wor…
june and july always find me in transition. some time ago i wrote that i am always to be a pilgrim and a stranger. my feet are ready to move on to something new. they're just waiting for some direction as to where.
here we are. the final paper. a cup of coffee followed by a cup of instant cappuccino certainly to be followed by many cups of tea and more tea. my finals candle is burning low. i plug my headphones into duke ellingt…
i've stumbled onto von balthasar. i've always thought i'd not like much. but maybe i was wrong. at least i like his "dialogical" approach to trinitarian thought. i find myself liking things i'd never even thought of.…
