Blog - Grief

This blog will be laced with obscenities.

Today, at 10:00 p.m., South Dakota will execute a man, and another man within the next couple of weeks.

Question:

“Eloi Eloi Lama Sabachthani?” cried Jesus from the cross.

Two days ago I learned that my friend Ellie committed suicide.

In the bleak midwinter, frost wind made moan,

I was so pleased to have been asked recently to prepare a presentation for the Stephen’s Ministers of my congregation, and I decided to make the gathered group into guinea pigs.

I remain unable to let go of the irritation I feel at myself that I did not think of the name of this strange venture of mine, namely OMG: Center for Theological Conversation.

I 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.

In light of Anne Rice’s recent announcement that she is leaving Christianity but holding onto Christ I am pondering the following:
What does it mean to react to vs respond to the Gospel, to God, to Christ, to Christianity?
What are the parallels, if any, between Anne Rice and the stance taken by Martin Luther centuries ago?
What does it mean to ‘leave’ a doctrine?

So. I recognize that I have been lax in writing.

After the accident, somebody told me that that best metaphor that they could think for me was that of Holy Saturday.