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 afoul […]
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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 to […]
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 of […]
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 […]
Objectivity is the attempt at moving towards an unbiased, universal knowledge that has been characteristic of the modern period. It aims at a view from nowhere; at a cool and calculating gaze at the world that transcends gender, culture, class, ethnicity, nationality, etc.
There are many problems with the idea of objectivity, and I will not get […]
