The Impossible Now–Part Four

This is the final installment of an introductory position paper I’m calling “The Impossible Now” or “Towards a Theology of the Impossible.”  There are three previous parts.  You can find them here, here, and here.  In this final installment I talk about “the religious question.”  Cheers!
…The im/possible is refusing, as it always does, to be [...]

+ Some Quotes +

A trinity of quotes today. 
One from a scientist. One from a philosopher. And the final from a priest. Somehow they speak to the foundation I sense I’m standing on. It is, to be sure, a weak foundation.  I’m not looking for a strong or obscenely certain one.  The weakness of the foundation is as weak as [...]

The devil and a bit of truth

The devil and his friend were walking down the road when they noticed a passer by pick something up off the ground.  The friend wondered aloud as to what the person had found.  Satan replied that they had picked up a piece of Truth.  His friend was chagrin, “You can’t just let people go around finding [...]

The Truth Shop

There’s a story that I’ve become fond of recently:
A man was wandering through the famous Portobello Street in London taking in all the bizarre shops and sights when, hardly believing his eyes, he saw a sign over a door front that read: “Truth Shop“.  Needless to say he decided it was best to investigate. 
The saleswoman [...]

Much Ado about nothing…

Truth is a slippery thing these days. 
Let’s take science for instance.  Say you wanted to observe and reasonably understand with a level of predictability the collision of two air molecules.  Air molecules are fairly simply, they’re relatively uncomplicated; the event of the collision will occur within a fourteen millionth of a second which means there’s [...]

The new faithful

This morning I heard a doctoral student from MIT on the radio. He was explaining how as a scientist he believes in an objective, universal truth that can be discovered and known.  The young scientist went on to say that as a Christian (and here I admit I don’t know WHICH brand of Christianity he was [...]

How (Not) to Write a blog

I have a thousand things I want to talk about…consequentially I can’t talk about any of them…I believe this is what Pete Rollins calls hypernimity…the abundance of content leads to an inability to speak of it. 
1) the difference between organic and organic
2) looking at the (un)knowability of God pictured in the Exodus story.seen trough the [...]

…So God offers you a Gift…

Imagine that God speaks to you—we’re not talking about general revelation here, this is specific divine interruption.  He lets you know that he desires to give you a Gift, but because of “free will” it will need to be one of your own choosing.  Having said that you’re given two options:
 
1.) You can spend the [...]

Accommodating away…

I’m an accommodator naturally.  That’s what I do.  It’s my own social fluidity.  And here’s what it means to me—if someone has a strong perspective, I back off mine.  Sometimes they don’t even have to have a strong one…I just back off…  In some ways this is a great thing; frankly I think people are [...]

Not the Religious Type

Books come my way quite a bit these days…but I must say, this title, “Not the Religious Type”, intrigued me.  First, a little bit of back story.  Back in Bible college days I came across the seminal work, “Mere Christianity” by CS Lewis.  I devoured it.  For the first time in my faith journey I felt as [...]