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a theology of i don’t know
“When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only…
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reflections on year two: am i okay now?
I’ve delayed posting my annual reflection on My Story at King’s Cross Church — longer than I needed anyway. Last year, I made a series of posts, the final which I wrote in late-December out of necessity; it just took me that long to work through my thoughts and feelings. Last year when I reread…
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2 / scripture and authority
I hope the latter chapters of this work will move faster than this one. I took a very long time with many starts and stops (much longer stops than starts) trying to put my thoughts together on the scriptures. I grew up in a church tradition that highly valued scriptural fluency and my cultural values…
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A Collection of Quotes from Against the Wind
Some quotes I collected from my reading of Dorothee Soelle’s memoir, Against the Wind: A Memoir of a Radical Christian (ISBN: 0-8006-3079-3) where she writes about the events and relationships that shaped her life. Each of these quotes could get a post on their own; maybe I’ll just do a few select ones. Anyway, with…
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Bending the rules
The passage for the sermon this past Sunday came from several scenes in Acts 16. As I was reading along, my thoughts began to wander about a detail that wasn’t addressed in the sermon, but stirred many thoughts in me as I considered how faith connects with cultures. In the first few verses of Acts…
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reading Dorothee Sölle and the passive church
I can’t remember where I first encountered her name; it was probably a few weeks ago on a podcast or an article I was reading. I learned that she was a German liberation theologian in the wake of WWII. I was intrigued enough to search the library for any of her books; when the search…
