Marginal Christianity

http://networkedblogs.com/JPEgB Posted by Halden on March 31, 2013 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments And now, after the end, now at the beginning, will shall speak, yet again of Love. Love eludes us. Only slightly more frequently and more intensely does love seize us, make us love’s own in the very moment when we find ourselves most lethargic, most unable to take another step. At the moment when we know nothing of love, love owns us, makes us transparent to the actions and call of love. Love is implacable. It will be satisfied with nothing other than the complete consumption of our whole self, indeed of the very notion of self. Love cares not for our self-thought, cares not for our constant introspection. Love is movement, the movement that happens precisely as our bitterness, anger, sorrow, and rage seem to consume every fiber of our being. Love is the short-circuit that somehow breaks through, somehow catches hold when every element of our feelings are captive en...

30 03 2013 by Sylvia Keesmaat (http://empireremixed.com/2013/03/30/betrayal-and-resurrection/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+empireremixed+%28Empire+Remixed%29) (A Sermon Preached at the Easter Vigil, March 30, 2013, at Christchurch, Coboconk on Genesis 1.1-2.4a ; Genesis 3 ; Exodus 14.10-31 , 15.20-21 ; Ezekiel 36.24-28 ; Romans 6.3-11 ; Luke 24.1-12 . Imagine it, if you will. God had such high hopes. God had hovered over the darkness, breathed over it and gathered all the creative energies of life. God hoped, and out of the darkness flowered light. And not only light: sky and earth, dry land and seas, fruit and flowers, leaves and grasses. Animals that walked and animals that flew, animals that crept and animals that swam. The skies, the seas, the earth, all of it teeming with the creative hopes of God. But there was more: the earth creatures, woman and man, to care for and rejoice in the earth, t...

http://www.johnstackhouse.com/2013/03/31/what-christianity-means-note-not-to-me/ March 31, 2013 One of the insidious developments among my students, readers, auditors, and interlocutors is consumerism about theology. Instead of arguing, say, about whether this or that understanding of the Atonement was right or wrong, was true to the Biblical data and faithful to the tradition or not, more and more one hears the assertion, “I don’t like that way of looking at it.” In other discourses, that would be a sign of extreme ignorance or a form of mental illness. “I don’t like that way of looking at gravity” or “I don’t like that way of understanding compound interest” or even “I don’t like that way of theorizing about poetry.” To be sure, intuition per se must be respected. Often people make sound judgments that they cannot (yet) articulate, much less can they outline a chain of evidence and inference that led them to this or that conclusion. So if someone tells me that she fi...