This morning Karyn Traphagen of Boulders to Bits fame drew my attention to a fascinating article in the Washington Post. The article reviews a book entitled How God Changes Your Brain. In part, it seems, the upshot is that we must be careful in choosing what God we worship–we will be changed: “But Newberg’s research [...]
I’ve put it off as long as I could, but I’m finally starting to climb Mount Everest (= reading Douglas Campbell, The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul). I confess that I’m going into this kicking and screaming–not just because the book is 1180ish pages long, but also because I tend [...]
A second issue about authenticity swirls around the nexus of anger and forgiveness. (As an aside, and in the interest of transparency and authenticity, these first two issues are close to home for me. I tend to use more than my fair share of colorful (*ahem*) language and have been known to rage from time [...]
Genesis 2-3 has functioned as a veritable treasure-trove throughout the Christian tradition. Here is where we get indications of male-female relations, here is where we indications of rules set forth by God. Here is where things fall apart when people break the rules so that God has to figure out a new set of rules [...]
Otherness. Distance. Unbridgeable gap. Creator. Humans. Proximity. Creatures. In the world structured by the transhistorical law of the King Who Is Other, we start off in quite a hole with respect to God: all is duty and obligation by the order of creation, and a special act, an added gift is required, if God is [...]
(The following is an encore presentation of a post from the dearly departed Sibboleth blog. The series, posted here this week, will serve as an introduction to the project of this particular blog: what it’s called “Storied Theology” and what it means to speak of a “story-bound God”.) When our idea of the fundamental fabric [...]
