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:
Does God want us to be nobodies and nothings?
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The being of God needs to be configured from what God does. God speaks, reveals, and relates. These three dimensions of what God does are partially, though not exhaustively, connected to who God is. God is a massive figure who has a purpose, not primarily an essence. This purpose is renewal, which will ultimately unfold and develop in the world and humanity until the moment when God breaks through, and becomes entirely present.
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Seems to me we’re living in a post-trust world. When the major trust identities in a culture are shattered, there is little left to promote confidence. Since we have no where else to turn, it must be time for renewal.
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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:
One person lacks an experience of God and believes in God in spite of this. Another person lacks an experience of God and because of this does not believe in God. How significant should experience be when it comes to belief or unbelief in God?
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AN ENDORSEMENT FOR MY SOON TO BE RELEASED NEW BOOK.
"Living Reflections, written by Gregory J. Laughery the Director of the L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, is a worthy contribution to contemporary Christian thought in the tradition of cultural engagement championed by Francis Schaeffer, co-founder (with his wife Edith) of L'Abri. Laughery deals with a number of key issues from contemporary Christian philosophy, hermeneutics, and Biblical scholarship, moving seamlessly from philosophy to theology and back. The book is notable for its engagement with both "continental" and "analytic" philosophy, and also for the good sense and balance the author shows in dealing with a number of contested issues."
C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Baylor University.
ABOUT LIVING RELECTIONS
The patron saints of reductionism and polarization in contemporary Christian thought frequently dominate disputes over language, philosophy, theology, interpretation, and their interaction. Living Reflections moves in a different direction. It establishes a space for dialogue, mediates one-sided extremes, and offers a hermeneutic of relation and distinction, which depicts a new vision for engaging with these contested issues. Challenging and insightful, it invokes a perceptive wisdom going beyond modernist and postmodernist perspectives, affirming the tension-filled and organic character of Christian truth.
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On the global register the financial picture is bleak. There is no better moment than now to set in motion an economy of gift, which goes far beyond the economy of exchange. The notion of exchange dominates our cultures and influences all we do and say. While there is some validity to and place for exchange, it is not, as it pretends, the end of the story. Let’s beat back this omniscient narrator, through a grace and generousity that is linked into God’s economy of superabundance.
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The ZigZag Café
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 ethics has a sufficient basis without God?
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Believers can experience high levels of anxiety, either as a result of complications in their own lives, or by taking on the burdens of others. But peace with God is not configured by sensations or a masked by anxiety. This possibility comes about through the life, death, and resurrection of Christ becoming our own. Living “as if” means that our lives are determined by the future, which has broken into the present, shattering the notion that the present is the sole referent for itself.
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Our lives are so cluttered with debris that it’s harder and harder to think. It’s almost as if there is a conspiracy to prevent us from thinking about anything at all. Being zombies and robots – that’s it – that’s what it’s all about. Don’t bother attempting to reverse the flow. Beware! Thinking may do some serious collateral damage to us all.
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Living Spiritual Rhythms For Today
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:
If you think that we have a choice to believe or not believe in God before believing, and then we come to belief, do we still have a choice to believe or not believe after having done so?
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Ontology, epistemology, and ethics are blended and nuanced as nowhere else, in a Christian perspective of the self, other, and world, resulting in truer selfhood. A self that begins with self, which we all do, is a trajectory of orientation, but a self that attempts to end with the self is a violation of self. That is, the self lacks the capacity to be a truer self if the self does not have a divine source or informer of being, knowledge, and morality beyond oneself, as all human others at some point, are selves.
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Feeling at peace with something may not be a reliable source of confirmation that this is what you should do, or what God wants you to do. To feel this way or that is an important factor to take into consideration when deciding something, but it is wide open to duplicity. Making decisions and commitments anchored in theological truths, however, is a more sure and trustworthy guide for following in the footsteps of the crucified and risen One.
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