I would like to use a word that I can’t find in any of my dictionaries: “symptomatography”. I would like to use it because I believe that all the issues and problems that we normally treat are symptoms of a deeper malignant disease. It is crucial that we recognize this and develop the skill of diagnosing the disease and the symptoms it presents. The reason being that we settle with simply treating the symptom with band-aids… an interim measure that... Read more

What is being offered to the church today is a multitude of choices. (Let me see: leeks or onions? I choose onions!) We are being told that when we select one of these choices, we are making a free choice. And we feel as though we are free when we make our selection from among the several choices. This is not perfect freedom. As the philosopher Zizek writes in his book, On Belief: … the truly free choice is a... Read more

One of my more faithful commentators made this comment on my post last week called Designer Theology: nakedpastor, do you find that you have to have the same arguments over and over again with yourself? Or are there things you take as a given? It seems to be you could realign your foundation over and over again and never really get as far as installing windows… I realize I seem to be repeating myself. But it’s only because what is... Read more