“Every attempt to read revelation as a teaching on the nature and attributes of God falls into the same error of representational thought—the sin of objectifying metaphysics— against which we are called to recover the hearing of Being.” Gianni Vattimo After Christianty

I forgive you. It is so easy to say; But what does it mean? It seems that so many Christian communities proclaim in the same attitude as their other proclamations of belief—without the statement being truly reflective of something happening within *and without*. Just like many people proclaim a belief in Jesus as Lord without […]

At least a month ago I got an idea for Lent. I had been thinking for sometime about a way to explore and express the Lenten journey in a creative way. I desired to find a way of walking through this time which wasn’t simply marked by giving up a basic desire. I wanted to […]

To continue in my reflections of John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus, here’s another related thought from him: A Jew did not become a Christian by coming to see God as a righteous judge and a gracious forgiving protector. The Jew believed that already, being a Jew. What it took for him or her, […]

Why does eschatology always push us to the end of time? What if we could develop an eschatology which didn’t need us to posit it as outside of history? Wouldn’t this be more of a Jewish way of understanding salvation and the messianic? In John Howard Yoder’s The Politics of Jesus I was lead to a […]

New Year’s Resolutions. It seems everyone is thinking about them. Everyone loves the chance to start anew, begin afresh. Let us all give up our vices and replace them with virtues! I’d venture to say, even if you’re not the type of person to resolve yourself to a commitment of change, you have probably thought […]

I’ve put off this review for a while. I first read Peter Rollins‘ Insurrection some 6-8 weeks ago. I have thought about its contents since, but I wanted to read it a second time before I put my thoughts to the page. In general I have really enjoyed the thoughts of Lacan and Žižek rolled together with […]

There is something I’ve noticed for a while. I’ve thought about it quite a bit, without a clear resolve. It is a question of information and human relations. We live in a world where people have huge amounts of information at their disposal. With such immediate and constant access that smartphones and always-on-broadband-internet gives us, […]

I was listening to someone share their journey through religion recently. Like so many who grew up in the Baptist church, she recalled the many altar calls she responded to as a child. And my thought while listening to her reflect, was of course why not. Anyone who has grown up within such a tradition—where […]

I received a message from someone recently… God wanted me to ask you what you are learning. Not what you are learning from books or from other people,and not what you are learning to share with others. But what are you learning from God? No reply needed..just being obedient to ask the question. There is […]