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Thursday, May 31, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Living Spiritual Rhythms - May 30
No one’s story is fully written in the now. Don’t get caught up in the eternal
return of the present with the living dead. As children of God we’re traveling
on the journey to our destiny, which is to image Christ. If movement and
transformation are not part of your theology, change it. Hope for the already
and not yet deserves, as rapturous love, a startling embrace that enlivens our
notion of being on the way; living the unfinished story.
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Monday, May 28, 2018
Reflection for the Week - May 28
Provocatively cutting away at the darkness is a challenging task that gradually opens up glimmers of light. These slivers of illumination, subversive and revolutionary, glisten through the veil of the masquerade, and offer a hope that translates into a new way of being, seeing, and living. Light leads to a destiny, whereas darkness takes us nowhere. Dismantling the darkness promotes light, embracing light exposes darkness. Here lies the ferocious battle, the substance of what it’s ultimately all about: life or death.
Friday, May 25, 2018
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Thursday Thoughts - May 24
It seems to me Western culture is increasingly one of dislocation and fragmentation. Modernist notions of stability and permanence are rightly being shattered, as they were rooted in deception. In its place, however, postmodern nomads now wander from here to there - to nowhere, and this is not primarily a physical or geographical phenomenon, it pertains to the way some folks view life. False certainty has been replaced by false uncertainty. Flitting from this to that and back again is so common today. Many attempt to re-invent themselves by the hour. No home, no boundaries, no commitments – drifting. Yet, these powerful, persuasive, and misleading images often peddled by our culture and embraced by the crowd, leave us destitute and floundering. In light of the waning credibility of modernism, nomadic postmodernism is not a viable option. We’re worth more than that and thus have to explore other possibilities that take this key factor seriously and then go from there.
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Living Spiritual Rhythms - May 23
Faithful biblical interpretation does not stop when the reader better understands the meaning of the text, but only when the reader lives that meaning out towards the other and into the world. Once this action takes place there is then a retro movement back from other and world to the reader, who then re-engages and is re-engaged by the text, in order to prepare for possible modifications and a new encounter. Responsible interpretation means that readers must know what to do with meaning, as this is not information to be stored or defended as ideology or utopia, but it is to be lived in a loving and gracious manner that gives testimony to the Crucified and Risen One.
Monday, May 21, 2018
Reflection for the Week - May 21
Humans have the outstanding capacity to navigate
through various physical states and material obstacles in life, while at the
same moment being immersed into imagination, which takes us into another space,
tethered to what’s in front of and around us, but also allowing a ‘being’ beyond
it. Fantastic !
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Thursday Thoughts - May 16
Tenacious
obscurity sometimes plagues us and we’re unable to see as clearly as we would
like. Groping around for illumination saturates our thoughts and feelings, and
there are no easy answers to be found. We fear being excluded, alienated, and
lost. Yet, living and working through the shadow of time is a continual and
viable challenge, as we search for renewed light and embrace it as we are able.
Living Spiritual Rhythms - May 15
Finding our way through the thicket of problems that perpetuate unbelief in God and the redeeming work of Christ is no easy task. And so often many churches are unhelpful in that they contribute to the production of unfaith by setting out isolationist views that have so little to do with living in the world. To participate in the reversal of unfaith our theology needs to be connected to, yet not dominated by the natural world, as we seek to be real and to live lives that have integrity and honesty, combined with a legitimate faith that is open to addressing problems and that can be shown to make viable sense.
Monday, May 14, 2018
Reflection for the Week - May 14
Theology is facing serious challenges today. Some are becoming aware of
this, while others remain unaware. As the natural world informer has
gained credibility, in particular as far as evolution is concerned,
questions concerning God, the fall, sin, and Divine action, are pounding
at the door and asking for a response.
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Thursday Thoughts - May 10
Many Christians unthinkingly assume that the biblical text is all they need for their point of view. But theology, like philosophy, science or art can’t go it alone. There is an obligation nowadays, for the sake of integrity, to consider a dialogue between a multiplicity of informers before drawing conclusions.
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Living Spiritual Rhythms - May 9
Many people today are caught in a commitment phobia syndrome. They have a difficult time knowing who and what to trust or be suspicious of. Because of human limitations, it is true that there will be appropriate places where it is almost impossible to decide which is which. This is a complicated scenario and frequently produces a stalemate. But, when it comes to God, self, other, and world there will also be perspectives that are more or less trustworthy. In some contexts, suspicion will carry greater weight and trust less, yet in others trust will be stronger and suspicion weaker. If this is the case, which seems likely, it means two things are true at the same time. Even though trust and suspicion may sometimes cancel each other out, they do not always do so. If they did, all interpretations would be equal and we would be perpetually stuck; unable of building on anything, have convictions about, or confidence in what we know and believe. In fact, so often today, ironically, a trust and suspicion stand-off functions as a metanarrative – a totalizing point of view. But this is absurd, since there are no complete or comprehensive stories. Furthermore, no one really lives as if there is. Metanarrative is an illusion. Sliding scales of trust and suspicion therefore are unavoidable and thus make some commitments a viable enterprise. We’re just those kinds of selves, who live in that kind of world.
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