Lest anyone get the impression I have been slacking off and not working on my thesis, here is another big chunk of it. This is the first half – two thirds of the section on the connection between faith and justice. As always, thoughts and comments are welcome! ———————————- The central narrative of the Bible [...]
As part of working on creative projects for Advent at my church I made my first serious attempt at writing a liturgical prayer. I borrowed and paraphrased from several sources and verses but a good chunk of this is my own work too. I’m sure there will be more changes before we use it in [...]
About a year ago my church went caroling for Christmas and I wrote about our little rag tag group and why I thought even our small showing was still important. Last night we went caroling again with far better turn out–in fact we had about 25 people go. I wanted to repost what I wrote [...]
“The Gospel is everything. The Gospel is not enough.” After our art and coffee discussion this morning this idea kept running through my head. It seems to me there is this paradox when talking about art and theology. We want to make art that is evangelical without being “Christian”. We want to make art that [...]
here’s another thesis draft bit I worked on today… ————————– In the beginning God created. Importantly, he didn’t do it all at once. God took his time, paused after each stage of creation and saw that his creation was good. We see God as a creative being delighting in his creation. Among everything he made, [...]
