Field notes on life and mission with God after Christendom
According to Luke 3, John the Baptist's vocation was to be a voice in the wilderness calling people to "prepare the way of the Lord" through repentance, anticipating the "forgiveness of sins" and the arrival of the Age to come. He warns people … [Continue reading] about Repentance as Redistribution
The cosmos environing us actually is, beyond all else, a self-sufficing community of unspeakably magnificent personal beings of boundless love, knowledge, and power.Dallas Willard This remarkable sentence refers, of course, to the Trinity. I'm … [Continue reading] about Goodness + Wisdom + Power
"No one who drinks a well-aged wine wants new wine," Jesus said, "but says, ‘The well-aged wine is better’” (Luke 5:39). In the parable preceding these verses, Jesus is telling people that his presence is a new situation that demands a new … [Continue reading] about When the Old Seems Better
It seems to me that there are different "stages" people move through in the lifelong journey of learning to pray. Different "modes" of prayer that seem to develop along a trajectory of growing experience and maturity. Prayer as petition It … [Continue reading] about Prayer as Participation
John's Gospel shows Jesus being constantly misunderstood by those who listen to him, because he is speaking from what we might call a spiritual paradigm, and most of his hearers have what we might call an earthly paradigm. ("Spiritual" doesn't … [Continue reading] about Trusting Without Understanding