processed faith is… …singing the same CCM songs everyone is singing in any ‘contemporary’ worship service all across America. …not trusting the local leadership to lead a group, so you buy a pre-packaged small group curriculum from a big name trusted leader. …having others wrestle with a passage all week so you can show up, [...]

{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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week was our last week of heavy thinking. Now begins the time of heavy lifting. Just as classic liturgy has a call & response, Hebrews has given us the call and now he laying out what our response should look like.

image by gordonplumb Isaiah ch. 34-39 We will be concluding our reading this week, by looking at the faithful king Hezekiah. He, as you will see, is the contrasting figure to king Ahaz which we saw earlier in our studies. Much of our studies have been focused on abstract principles of wickedness & rebellion being [...]

2                                                                                  ? Faith?                                              Art? This week I have come back to the question of faith, Abraham, and the almost sacrifice of his son, Isaac. In my Romans class we have talked about chapter 4 which speaks specifically about the faith of Abraham. This brought out a very rich conversation about faith. For those interested, [...]

This week we will be looking the climax of the argument we saw last week, in the passage Romans 3:21-31 and also continuing on to look at Romans 4, the faith of Abraham, session 3 of Eisenbaum. Summary Paul’s discussion in Romans 4 shows Abraham to be the common ancestor of both Jewish Christians and [...]

I have been reading through Kierkegaard’s book Fear and Trembling recently. I haven’t finished it yet, but it has already brought up some interesting concerns for me. Basically the book uses the story and Abraham’s sacrificing Isaac as a backdrop for a discussion of faith. Kierkegaard see faith as a paradox, something that cannot be [...]

this has been a weird week. most of my life in pretty dry and bland but this week has been full of crazy stuff. i hungout with a girl and later a friend of her’s monday night. it was nice but at the same time really boring. i’ve been stuck in the rut of never [...]