God’s Relevancy
Sacred pissiness
Monday, September 27th, 2010I just finished reading a review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America. You can find the link here. If you’re wondering why you’ve heard of Barbara Ehrenreich before, your memory is tingling because she wrote the notable book Nickle and Dimed. This latest book was born [...]
Who Created God?
Friday, September 10th, 2010Who created God? —————— Just for the record, it’s not that I’ve been watching soaps for some time. I’ve been reading up on this question. That’s all the reader gave me. “Who created God?” At first blush, it could seem like a trip-up question, right, a “gotcha”–which isn’t to say that this is the intention [...]
Hunches, hopes, hints about grace
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Question: If we are saved by God’s grace and yet we continue to turn our back on God, i.e., we don’t practice our faith, we don’t pray, we don’t read God’s word, we continue to repeat the same sins over and over, etc. if we die are we saved or did we fall short of [...]
YWHW clearly means, um…I’ll get back to you…..
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Question: In the Exodus rendition of God’s self-description, the syntax takes on expansive meanings: “I am who I am” could be “I will be what I will be” or “I am what I will be”. God continues in the passage to describe Himself in relationship to mankind as the “God of your fathers”, etc. It [...]
Home to new places
Monday, July 26th, 2010Like ink made visible in the moonlight. That’s what it was like to be in Germany. Europe illuminates a part of me that is otherwise not seen, sometimes even by myself. Kathleen Norris writes about the notion of “Spiritual Geography,” this idea that a person is shaped not only by people and events, but also [...]
Hope against Hope
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010So. I recognize that I have been lax in writing. I have not been lax in thinking, however. This summer has been as crazy-busy as it is hot. OMG open house in April. Wedding in May. New husband in China and Thailand for two weeks. Family from Alaska in June, their visit culminating in a [...]
“Nature is the new poor.”
Friday, June 18th, 2010That’s a provocative observation from theologian Sallie McFague. I stumbled on it while preparing for last night’s forum sponsored by 1Sky and Repower America about Christianity and the care of Creation. Below, as my next post, I’ve pasted the text of my presentation. As always, I look forward to your responses! _____________ Christians aren’t so [...]
Married, with children
Thursday, June 3rd, 2010Clearly I have been AWOL and MIA in terms of my blog, and I apologize! But that is because not only am I “with children,” but I am now also “married,” as of May 21. Wedding preparation on the heels of the OMG open house, and then moving belongings, and having a “familymoon” with the [...]
Is God just laughing at our expense?
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010Question: Why doesn’t God make things more evident, such as important life and death decisions, or directions to take in life or in ministry. I’m not saying that God would do so with miraculous signs or anything, but why not at some point in the process of trying to figure out the next best step, [...]
One foot in Good Friday, one foot in Easter-lifes theme
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010After the accident, somebody told me that that best metaphor that they could think for me was that of Holy Saturday. They were right. Holy Saturday is the in-between time, that time when we ponder and experience the reality of death–and our complicity in it–and simultaneously for Christians, we live in the expectant hope that [...]
