The Problem of Pain

This afternoon one of my co-workers stood in my office sobbing.  Every few seconds she would catch her breath, sort of gaining composure, only to drift back into tears.  She poured out, between the bursts of sniffles, her gutwrenching story of an inexplicable break up.  The boy she loved claimed to no longer love, or [...]

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 [...]

Easter

Today is Easter, by some accounts.  And I’m reminded of new life.  More specifically I’m reminded of life that survives, in spite of.  That is the Big Story, I think.  The Christ life can’t be held down.  The Good, the Just, the Beautiful, is a force that cannot be killed–for long.  It is a promise. [...]

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 [...]

Which side of love?

There’s a parable I’ve found particularly beautiful in recent days.  Pete Rollins shares it in his book “The Fidelity of Betrayal”.  
A man dies and and appears before the gates of heaven.  There is St. Peter ahead of him, welcoming him in.  The man is giddy and thrusts part of himself through the doorway into [...]

Pro-Life…womb to tomb

Dualistic thinking abounds during election years…both from the right and the left. I think we’re better than sinking into single issue choice. It’s been a struggle as a follower of Jesus to imagine a way to be faithful to beliefs during this campaign season. To be honest I’ve wrestled with the notion of even [...]

Cannabilism…and other optimistic thoughts.

I’m all for apocalyptic futures and all (just finished watching a crazy Matrix on crack movie called Casshern out of Japan–check it out!!!)…but really…I’m not sure if this is what are next 50 years holds in store for us.  What do I mean?
Ted Turner–the mouth of the South–was talking about global warming and overpopulation recently [...]