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Saturday, August 19, 2017
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Thursday Thoughts - August 17
Letting go of assumed truths about
God that turn out not to be true is not betrayal, but wisdom. As enshrined as
these assumptions sometimes can be, abandoning them for the evolving ‘truer’ is
a worthwhile and challenging adventure that knows no end.
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Living Spiritual Rhythms - August 16
Empirical data is a persuasive informer, which can
tempt us to believe it’s all there is. Yet, numerous difficulties arise here,
not least the aspect that so much of our lives are non-empirical. Consider
thoughts, emotions, imaginations, and a self-referential talking to ourselves. These
‘invisibles’ are a strong argument against the reductionistic tendencies of
empiricism and for a reality that includes the unseen.
Monday, August 14, 2017
Reflection for the Week - August 14
A supposedly insurmountable antagonism towards self
– self-hate – read as a continual experience of fault and denial, undoes
dialogue and strikes at the heart of selfhood. That is, when trust and
suspicion cancel each other out, there will be little or no capacity to change
self-hate. What and who to trust and what and who to be suspicious of, if
suspended in this manner, result in a default adherence to the status quo. To
break the cycle of the same, it must be realized that trust and suspicion
orientations cannot rest solely on the self, and other informers have to be
taken into consideration. When an embrace of a dialogue with these reliable
informers takes place it can help to validate appropriate trust and suspicion,
and thereby expose self-hate as a lie, eventually replacing it with a finite,
yet genuine picture of a truer self to love and be loved, in the configuration
of oneself as another.
Friday, August 11, 2017
Friday Musings - August 11
In the midst of the often
troubled relationship between theology and science, there is the need to
promote a viable theology for scientific times; let’s say, a renewed search for
optimal understanding and intelligibility. Our book From Evolution to Eden. Making Sense of Early Genesis is one of the
forerunners in this discussion. We focus uniquely on the creation narratives
and how to better interpret them in light of the natural world informer.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Thursday Thoughts - August 10
Catharsis, while an indispensable part of the broken
journey towards our destiny, is not an end in and of itself. Rather, deep release
is to lead to renewed conviction that in spite of the tragic circumstances that
have so horribly blown the world apart, God is eventually going to transform
everything.
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Living Spiritual Rhythms - August 9
It’s almost as if the “poetic moment” is a
suspension of time, in time.
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