There are facts. And then there are the stories we tell about the facts. Perhaps the most important thing that illusive “postmodernity” has done for us is to help us see that our lives and decisions and emotions and responses are driven by our interpretations of the world as much as they are by the facts that those interpretations are trying to make sense of. The Failure of Smart Yesterday I heard about a study that had been conducted. Science... Read more
Called to Community questions our normal and summons us to a better way of following Jesus. Read more
The gift of an election cycle in which there are no political messiahs. Read more
Gordon College accused of retaliating against LGBTQ-Supporting Professor Read more
No, God does not have sex. But gender? Read more
For some people the only thing that matters is being right. People like me. Read more
In my previous post I issued a strong warning against allowing the church’s “rule of faith” be the determining factor in our interpretation of the New Testament. Such a move muffles the voice of the ancient text, and it muffles the voice of the modern interpreter. It extends its hands in both directions at once, colonizing the voices of God’s people by then hands of the ancient elite few. Somehow the words of Karl Barth are echoing in my mind: Well... Read more
The rule of faith colonizes the Bible--silencing its own ancient voice as well as the voices of modern readers. Read more
"Who can forgive sins but God alone?" --Scribes "You mean besides John the Baptist?" --Mark Read more
When I was in a conservative Presbyterian denomination there was never the Lord’s Supper observed except that the table was properly fenced. “Fencing the table” meant giving everyone a careful explanation of who was welcome and who, for their own good, needed to stay away. This was an attempt to take seriously the warning of Paul: “The one who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to themself if they do not judge the body (of the Lord) rightly.” The... Read more
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