
Ouch!
via: @bileams
“We all have a hunger for certitude. And the problem is the Gospel is not about certitude, it’s about fidelity. So what we all want to do if we can is immediately transpose fidelity into certitude. Because fidelity is a relational category and certitude is a flat mechanical category. So we have to acknowledge our thirst for certitude, and then recognize if you had all the certitudes in the world, it would not make the quality of your life any better, because what we must have is fidelity.”Walter Brueggemann – Emergent Conversation – 2004 – Day One Part One (16:55)
via @elonje via Missio Dei
"Respect for difference, of course! But on condition that the different be parliamentary-democratic, pro free-market economies, in favor of freedom of opinion, feminism, the environment ... That is to say: I respect differences, but only, of course, in so far as that which differs also respect, just as I do, the said differences."
Alain Badiou, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. London: Verso, 2001. s.24
Can liberal democracy have a place for people who claim to know or embody 'the truth'? If it cannot, what could it possibly mean by diversity?
D. Stephen Long. Speaking of God: Theology, Language, and Truth. Grand Rapids Eerdmans, 2009. s.271
Ingenstans går sekulariseringen att avläsa så tydligt som i gudstjänsten. Och aldrig blir den mer förödande. Lättsinniga och pratiga gudstjänster, dränerade på vördnad och helighet, är den främsta orsaken till att många som växt upp inom kyrkan distanserar sig från församlingen. Och till att seriösa sökare vänder i dörren. Vem vill ha en gudstjänst med fernissa från populärkulturen när allt annat redan gjorts till underhållning?