My last post kicked up some excellent discussion, but I’d say that much of it arose due to confusion over two things: the hasty manner in which I wrote, and the nature of calling itself. I hope to rectify the former and clarify the latter. I must say at the outset that there is a lot […]
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In keeping with some of the Yoder I quoted in the previous post, I’d like to propose that discipleship can be distilled down to a twofold task. (Beware of reductionists!) The first portion is being the kind of called-out community who embody the kingdom of God, upsetting the status quo, serving the poor and oppressed, running […]
Love and fear appear to be the primordial motivators in our lives. No other primary orientation seems to underpin our way of being-in-the-world than these two outlooks. Love and fear present with a choice, time and time again. Will I act in the situation that I’m in based on love, or on fear? This, it seems […]
life is a gift we know not from where it comes or goes more precious than iphones or hummers that fade far faster than this flesh life is a gift that we never could have asked for or imagined take it for gifted this life in love it has sprung in love in loss in fear and trembling alleluia.
I just started reading Jack Caputo’s little book On Religion. It has what must be the best opening section of any book I’ve read for quite some time! After saying that “religion” in the singular means nothing, he lets loose: By religion, therefore, let me stipulate, I mean something simple, open-ended, and old-fashioned, namely, the love […]
Modern political theory (and this is an exaggeration!) tends to be mostly about how to do the least possible harm to the fewest number of people. It assumes that, without some type of political order, chaos will reign and we’ll be at each other’s throats. The Christian doctrine of the Fall has no doubt contributed […]
