Dec 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
"If we don't know where the gates of hades are, no wonder the church doesn't know where the church is going … The church is a movement with a downward arrow, following Jesus from heaven into the realm of death." "The story of Lazarus'...
Dec 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
I know that we’re in the Advent Season, but I think I’m going to fast as if it’s Lent instead. What was at first comical, amusing, and just plain silly, has become so abhorrent that I have to look away and stop listening and watching “the show.” I remember as a child...
Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
The approach so many take to their faith is found only in positive affirmation of things they already believe or the repeated affirmations of the commonly accepted doctrines of their local body of faith. This is known as cataphatic theology, which finds its...
Dec 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is 30 years ago this year I began a PHD thesis on Martin Buber at McMaster University. McMaster was a hub of Biblical Jewish-Christian Studies and, in a much more general sense, historic Jewish-Christian relationships (for good and ill). Needless to say, the...
Dec 4, 2015 | Uncategorized
Nobody believes that an individual or isolated group of individuals who decide to blow up an abortion clinic or enter with guns blazing to be indicative of orthodox Christianity (orthodoxy here meaning the “accepted norm” rather than the Orthodox church as an entity)....
Dec 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
It's not God's power that we need to focus on, it's our misuses of the power we are given. Just like God's power, our power needs to come under the supervision of love. We are not good at doing this. We are so bad at it, in fact, that we expect even...
