Christian universalism is a Christian theology focused around the doctrine of universal reconciliation – the view that all human beings will ultimately be restored to a right relationship with God. I’ve been doing some rereading from the “fathers” of Christian Universalism and have been thinking about what I believe as a Christian Universalist with feet […]
Brewing Theology
The Theology of Popeye
Who would have guessed it? Theology abounds in Popeye! As a kid arriving home from church on a Sunday morning one of the first things I did was to grab hold of the “funny papers” and read faithfully every funny. “Popeye The Sailor” was one of those comics. Although I probably didn’t realize it at […]
Humans Need Stories
What follows raises the question: How does what appears below change who we look at the biblical narrative and apply it today? Humans need stories. Stories inform, educate, celebrate, and bring about change. We define and redefine ourselves through the telling of stories. Without our story we would cease to exist. Stories give meaning to […]
Needed: A Theology of Mourning
Lately I have been thinking about how theology seems to have no place for mourning, no theology of grief. It just isn’t a theological option, not something that theology should deal with. Personally I think that we need a theology of mourning, a theology that makes grief holy, a theology that makes mourning both […]
Scripture, I believe, is not inaccurate; it is, however, not literal.
It’s all real, sometimes you use metaphors to express what can’t be said out right, but that doesn’t mean the metaphors aren’t real. You bypass the rational mind and go right to the symbolic. – Abby in THE DEEPEST WATER, Kate Wilhelm. Scripture, I believe, is not inaccurate; it is, however, not literal. Our problem […]
The I-Thou I-Me Conflict & The Failure of Western Christianity
Drawing on the Celtic Christian Concept of the God-Image within The failure of Western Christianity is her lost of community in favor of the individual. Modern Christianity was born in the Enlightenment with the I-Thou of Community giving way to the I-Me of Individualism. The world is only an inhibiting cocoon that must be shed […]
The Table
“Come I Before The Lord” We don”t come to the table to fight or to defend. We don”t come to prove or to conquer, To draw lines in the sand or to stir up trouble. We come to the Table Our hunger brings us there. We come needy. With fragility, With an admission of our […]