This book is a blend of anecdotes, stories, poems, and
prayers that call us to reflection and redemptive action. Neither a boring
sermon, nor a surface-level feel-good list of devotions, Gregory J. Laughery
takes us on a journey through a constellation of thoughts and emotions
including joy and sadness, trust and suspicion, courage and fear, love and
justice. Living Spiritual Rhythms develops a picture of life lived in community
with God and others, opening up new directions for Christian spirituality.
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In the light of the rising power of science to explain
the world, rethinking our interpretations of Genesis 1-3 is a crucial
enterprise today. Our new book, From Evolution to Eden, aims to promote a
conversation at the highly provocative intersection of creation and evolution.
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We all have
blended lenses through which we see ourselves, others, God, and the world. Visions
of the past, present and future have a jarring impact and frequently leave us
caught in-between. Being left within this ‘discordant’ time warp is akin to
looking at and into split frames. What we ‘see’ then is of a ‘fragmented’
character, which means we’ll need other resources, notably the biblical and
natural world narrative informers, to assist us in seeing, though never
seamlessly, in a more holistic and ‘concordant,’ manner. That is, having a
better way of ‘seeing’ is not merely a matter of re-adjusting our focus, but of
somehow learning ‘to be’ in ‘contact’ with the Divine One.
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Rather than secondary,
ornamental, or aesthetic renderings of the real; metaphor, symbol and story may
be first order forms of discourse that need to be taken seriously as we seek to
understand God, ourselves, and the world. Poetry, for example, may be a fuller
expression of truth than mathematical formulations and imagination may prove a
reliable guide to the real over the unreal.
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Friendship should not be viewed as a relationship
without challenges and conflicts. It’s how friends handle them that counts.
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Misrecognizing that there will always be a relation
and distinction between self and other leads to inappropriate ways of
connecting that both demand too much, and expect too little. Self and other
deserve to be ‘mutually recognized’ as having worth and value, which is to
result in developing a finely tuned dialogical interaction between them. But
when self or other is the sole referent for life or no referent at all – each becomes
artificially constituted in a double misrecognition – neither should be
perceived in such roles. Since it is always tempting to ignore the complex
tension of relation and distinction it will be ‘hard work’ to avoid false
characterizations of who we are and thus to reject the liabilities of forcing
self to be other or other to be self. Yet,
work it out we must, though as we do so let it be in a careful and
compassionate manner, delicately balanced on the tight rope of trust and
suspicion.
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