The sooner we realize that the idea of a human
‘fall’ some 6-7,000 years ago brought about death is an illusion, the closer
we’ll be to a more accurate, though still mysterious, picture of the world.
When we look at billions of years of evolutionary
history, it appears that at the outset there was life and death. Thus, death,
I’d wager, has always been configured in life. This may have been the only way
there could eventually be a present world like ours. Future transformation,
however, suggests that in contrast to this there will be a refigured life – a forever
life without death, and we’re left with imaginative possibilities of what that
might look like.
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Celebrate! The most imaginative primate is you.
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Unfortunately,
Christians often tend to embrace a vicious cycle of self-introspection that
revolves around in a continual cadence of navel gazing, where they get lost in
the circle of the same. Not that introspection is all bad, but when it’s all there
is, it becomes highly dubious. The end result of this is being a self-centered
self. Living spirituality, by contrast, leaves plenty of room for self-examination,
but it would promote another notion of self: a transformed self. This self is
in contact with and dependent on the Other and others, the biblical text, and
the natural world, which in turn opens the possibility of learning more about
being oneself as another.
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Christians
devote a tremendous amount of time and energy attempting to exorcise tension.
In my view, this is a utopian misinterpretation of living spirituality and not
the direction God has for us. To be in tension is to be in-between. And being
in-between corresponds to the theological marker of the Kingdom of God, to life
in the world, and to who we are as humans. Don’t try to escape tension. Embrace
it! And go from there.
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