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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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:
There may be many, but if you had to formulate one major specific problem that alienates us from God, what would it be?
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One the the major problems in our culture is with “I”. When we are considered caught in and submersed by this supposed capital “I”, in either its exalted (Descartes) or humiliated (Nietzsche) form, we are being led astray. The single most pertinent reason for this is that there is no such a capital “I” in the first place. A new direction is necessary. Perhaps attestation, as taking a wise stand in the world, is a plausible possibility for self and other in that it keeps the viability of significance open, while refusing the chimera of the "I" of exaltation or humiliation.
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There are at least two ways a crisis of hope may express itself. First, pessimism: cynicism overtakes us and we decide to take matters into our own hands. Second, optimism: naïve idealism saturates us and we decide that God will resolve it all for us. Neither of these false options has much to do with a Christian point of view and both will leave us empty. Yet we may tend to spend significant amounts of time and energy floating from pessimism or optimism, or attempting to solidify and barricade ourselves in one perspective or the other. Never this simple, life with God will challenge these tendencies and in so doing refigure the false options into growing opportunities for engaging in community with God, others, and 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:
In my view lots of Christians embrace the status quo. Why do you think that they accept the status quo; about God, themselves, others, and the world?
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There is a great deal of time and effort expended on lamenting our situatedness and attempting a way out it. Perhaps it’s best not to be thinking of a “way out” of our hermeneutical and epistemological situatedness, but rather to be configuring it as a “way through” to possibilities of new understanding. Hermeneutics and epistemology, in our context, are likely to have modernist and postmodernist tendencies, which nevertheless do not restrict us to going round in a vicious cycle of the same, because we can and do arrive at new understandings as we traverse through that which we belong and are potentially distanced from. The aim therefore is not to find a way out, but to recognize that the living God has a way in, and this in turn provides us with a way through.
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Eyes burning and seared by the present views and circumstances of life blinds us to a passion for the possible of a different future, yet God has promised to renew the world and we must trust and act on his ability to do so. Learning to see the imprint of the future on the present is no easy task and we sometimes stray from the visionary and realistic immersed in the apparent unchanging status quo that only recycles everything into the same. Imaginary orientations rooted in God’s manifestations of hope broaden our horizons toward change and help us to look and see again.
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