What God has done…

I heard something a couple of days ago that sort of put me over the edge.  See, it was the same thing I’d been hearing from different random people for over a month, and quite frankly, I’m tired of it. I hadn’t planned to post on the topic which I’m about to post on because [...]

Oh yes, you did laugh!

Proper 6 Year A RCL June 15, 2008, St. Ann’s Nashville Genesis 18:1-15 I’ve been reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book called Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and a story she told at the beginning sort of struck me as going along with our readings for today. One of the first chapters is called “Waiting for Asparagus” and she [...]

Eternity in disguise

I’ve been reading The Sabbath, by Abraham Joshua Heschel, a book which I’ve owned for several years and have yet to actually read. He starts out with a sort of polarization of time and space, saying: Technical civilization is man’s conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an essential ingredient of [...]

How not to do church…

I’ve been reading blogs again (yay!) and rediscovered one, and found a new one that were both talking about similar things in different ways. Glenn Innes muses on an Einstein quote “The kind of thinking that will solve the world’s problems will be of a different order to the kind of thinking that created those [...]

Ghosts and corpses–the danger of splitting up the Gospel

My wonderful husband, Jody, posted a quote from E. Stanley Jones recently where he discussed what happens when you separate an individual gospel from a social gospel. An individual gospel without a social gospel is a soul without a body, and a social gospel without an individual gospel is a body without a soul. One [...]

Theology World Cup

This is interesting.

So, I’m Karl Barth…

Makes me think I should read more of what he actually wrote what I know of him I like, but I just haven’t dug in that much… Same goes for Anselm… I would have thought I’d score higher on like Moltmann… On the other hand, I have no clue why Schleiermacher’s not on the absolute [...]

Espresso beans and rose gardens

For my coffee of choice today I pick… dark chocolate covered espresso beans! (though, granted, those are not “ground” so they don’t quite fit this category of “The Daily Grind.” ah well). While I was working in my garden today, I had a not-so-profound profound moment, if that make sense… I was trying to cut [...]