Real relationships offer us dynamic possibilities to take part in a productive spiral towards mutuality—the narrative drama of a shared space to be and be with the other. Being enmeshed in the beauty of mutuality does not undermine individual freedom, but enhances it. For where responsible trust increases and unreliable suspicion diminishes, within the theater of a redemptive life, we discover that a poetics of loving and being loved is a marvel. Sameness and separation, which both happen in a perpetual moment of embrace and release are located in, yet transcend words and actions, as we draw ever closer to who we were meant to be.
Monday, June 29, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
Friday
Musings – June 26
Today,
what matters in many a classroom is not a well thought out argument, but how
the view affects one’s personal emotional state. If someone says “that hurts my
feelings,” even when it may be a valid position, this tends to be a weightier
reason for rejecting it than offering a credible riposte on the level of ideas.
As such “feelings” increasingly become the criteria for a better or worse view;
this will create serious conflict, and even sometimes jeopardize job security
for teachers.
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Thursday Thoughts – June 25
Life & Death are inextricably woven
together, until Death is no longer a necessary feature of Life.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Living Spiritual Rhythms – June 24
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Evolution & Eden ?
For a few cents more than a glass of
wine in a café or restaurant in la Suisse, where I live, you can buy a
copy of our new book From Evolution to Eden. Making Sense of Genesis
1-3. I guarantee that the effect of reading the book would outlast
drinking the wine. I don’t, however, guarantee that the book would taste
as good as the wine, but it might. At any rate, here’s a proposal. Take
a risk if you fancy it – indulge in both: have a glass of Swiss wine
and read this challenging book. Cheers, happy days, santé!
Monday, June 22, 2015
Reflection for the Week - June 22
Finding shelter in
our world from the vacuous and inconsequential is harder and harder to do; the
rhythm of trite leaves us exposed to a devaluing of heart, mind, and
imagination. Rapid-fire bs captures the air waves and infiltrates our capacity
to think clear and true thoughts that can be lived, in contrast to the
prevailing and woeful meltdown of the critical adventure. While it’s true that
criticism is never to be an end in and of itself, it is an essential component
to chasten naïveté and to promote the virtuous life of following in the
footsteps of Christ. Engage, critique, embrace―the Infinite One, other, and world; the given of giveness and the
power of this trinity that offers us the spooky haven of relationality; the
space to dwell in oneself as another.
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Science & Theology
The old adage that scientists are
uninvolved observers and that science is solely about the facts has been
undergoing serious reassessment, and rightly so, since at least the
days of Polanyi and Kuhn. An equally significant and judicious
challenge is taking place with respect to biblical readers who have also
embraced their own myths of impartiality in assuming that they
read the Bible as solely a book of facts with no need of interpretation. If
you’re interested in this topic as it relates to Genesis 1-3, there’s more in
our new book From Evolution to Eden.
Friday, June 5, 2015
Friday Musings - June 5
The longer theology turns a deaf ear to science the more the lack of credibility for doing so will proliferate.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Thursday Thoughts – June 4
God is not pleased with charlatans who are faking faith
out of pretense or duty that has nothing to do with the heart. OT prophets
railed at those who were supposedly spiritual and doing all the right things,
but forgot to love God and each other. And, although it’s often ignored, Jesus
was less than friendly with those who claimed to be God’s people, but were
hypocrites, while going out of his way to be merciful to bleeding women,
prostitutes, and beggars.
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