In my latest library perusing I came across Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. I’d originally heard of it from Robb Ryerse who had read it a few months back and blogged about it. I find the whole topic of how technology and media affect us all very interesting. [...]

I have avoided this final reflection for a week or so now. I feel as though I have some final thoughts upon Caputo’s ideas in The Weakness of God but I haven’t felt that they were clear enough to put down on {the proverbial} paper. So here are my random thoughts on and quotes from [...]

I read a lot of books, some of them are really good, some not so much, some are informative or educational, but then some are just simply ruptures in thinking—this was what Dan Kimball‘s Emerging Worship was for me. It isn’t very new (published in 2004) and it isn’t a very complex or hard read [...]

{I continue my journey through John Caputo’s The Weakness of God.} The Weakness of God is divided into two parts. Part One is ‘The Weakness of God’, Part Two is ‘The Kingdom of God: Sketches of a Sacred Anarchy’. In between these two halves he has included what he calls a ‘Hermeneutical Interlude’. This interlude [...]

{I continue my thoughts on John Caputo’s The Weakness of God which started here.} There is a certain tension for me reading Caputo’s work. I really like a lot of what he says and the certain moves he is trying to make; maybe I have more modernists tendencies than I’ve realized but there are certain [...]

I feel conflicted with my response to Caputo’s work in general and I don’t think his book The Weakness of God will be an exception to that. I find his thinking to be very fresh and enlightening. The things he has taken from Derrida and spun into the theological conversation are extremely interesting. But it [...]

Being married to an artist, the question of the relation of art and faith is a on going discussion. It is something that comes up quite often while we explore what it means for us to be Christians living in this world, participating in bringing God’s kingdom. We find ourselves within a church with a [...]

There is a monster that hides in the shadows of the office or studio of every creative person. It is the voice that says, “it has already been done.” The voice of defeatism. It voices the fear of us all, giving word to the quiver of our souls, that we may actually have nothing new [...]

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove has released an incredible book (The Wisdom of Stability: Rooting Faith in a Mobile Culture) though simple in theme—we must stay rooted within a community for spiritual growth, even if it is contra to the culture around us. We must fight against the hyper-mobility mentality of society, even when it is in the [...]

The tendency of many North American Christians to assume that we merely have to pick up the Scriptures to understand them is compared to the view that if Jesus had joined us on the Emmaus Road, we necessarily would have recognized him. However, rightly seeing the Lord, or rightly reading the Scriptures, is not a [...]