We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
In what ways might being a Christian have something to do with political and economic views and practices?
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The reductionism that infiltrates our general culture has about as much to do with reality as a merry go round. Reducing God, humanity, and the world to the manageable, must be a false target. An embrace of a more expansive picture that integrates imagination and mystery may, in truth, be closer to the mark of the real.
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I continue to be baffled by how many Christians seem to be so bound to the Law. God, they conjecture, is the mighty Lawgiver who condemns them at every turn. It’s as if Christ is absent. Somehow the relevance and superabundance of, “now, therefore, there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus,” is remarkably silent in the vocabulary and voice of the one who speaks under the Law. Yet, and this is the power, “Christ condemned sin in flesh so that the just requirement of Law might be fulfilled in us who walk (conduct our lives) not according to flesh, but according to Spirit.” Be free and start walking.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Would you see inalienable human rights as having their roots in, and being a central characteristic of, Christianity?
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No narrative is fully explanatory and totally complete. In this sense, metanarratives do not exist. Be they scientific, theological, or philosophical – all fall short of being able to give us that much sought after “meta” that constantly escapes our grasp. And it’s a good thing it does. To live spiritual lives in this regard, means to embrace the “sufficient” given, and to let go of the dreams and illusions of that which tempts us towards the more than has been made available right now.
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Lost in translation. Transversing from good theology to relevant praxis is like learning another language. Getting translation going can be like pushing water uphill. We all too often get stuck somewhere along the way between cutting edge theology and compassionate praxis and therefore find ourselves without a way to speak and act. Yet, being first-rate translators will please God and help change the self, the other, and the world. The art and labor of translation is a necessity if we are going to sufficiently move from theology to praxis and back in credible and authentic ways. Let’s learn to translate and seek to be attuned to the language of motion and dialogue so that theological truth doesn’t end up not touching anyone and not going anywhere.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Do you think that theological and scientific perspectives from a narrow religious fundamentalism have had anything to do with encouraging the more recent rise of virulent forms of atheism?
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Knowledge is an important and crucial part of life. Yet, knowledge is insufficient for authentically redeemed selfhood, which ultimately has to be connected to who and what we love. Love is the sublime action that finishes the story with a flourish.
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Imagination is the elixir of life and the pathway to the discovery of truth, wherever it is to be found. Reason, sense observation, feeling, and experience suffer severe impoverishment without the recognition that imagination is the lynch pin that makes each of them possible and holds them together in a related, yet distinct manner. To be sure, knowing God, the revealing God, and being in community with him, is a possibility that be(s) and becomes much more of an accessible reality in and through imagination.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
No doubt there are a variety of features that contribute to human solidarity. What, for you, is one main characteristic or quality that binds humanity together?
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We have no direct vision of God or ourselves. When we demand this or attempt to do so, our view of both will be inappropriate. God invites us to see him through the eyes of Christ, which is the way he sees us. That is, through mediation our view of God and ourselves will become more appropriate and therefore have an impact of how we live in the world in community with God, self, and other.
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There are many times when we assume that we can’t do much to contribute to change and transformation in the life of the other. This is simply not true. We all have much to offer and to extend a gracious hand in the attempt to cultivate life, enrich community, and perpetuate blessing can surpass the false boundaries of self doubt in expressing the love of Christ to the world.
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We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
Most unfortunately, I believe, we all too frequently today demand to be autonomous selves. What do you think might be one way of subverting such a trajectory?
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Ethics, as expressed in the economy of exchange can never be an end in and of itself. Love, grace, and mercy go beyond an ethical right and wrong, however, without effacing it. Therefore, following in the footsteps of Christ will be relationally challenging and risky. We may not receive as much as we give. For the journey on this path is traced in and marked out by the economy of gift, which opens up new ways of being, seeing, and living.
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Torn apart. Voices and screams of the oppressed and disenfranchised awaken us to the plight of the majority who desperately need love and justice to reign in like the mighty power that God manifested when he raised Christ from the dead. Lord give us hearts to see those who are suffering and in pain and give wisdom as to how to follow in the footsteps of Christ to reduce the total misery and affliction that beset the world at this time.
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