I can be an obsessive person. After all kinds of input at this conference, more prolific blogging and journaling than I’ve had in forever, I found myself at the Hartford airport pulling out Doug Pagitt’s book, Preaching Re-imagined. Kathy looked at me and said, “You’re …
Read MoreWednesday Volf thought 4…Yes and No
Last night I suggested that maybe Quakers have something to offer to the conversation about the real presence of God in our midst. We had a chance to write down questions to ask Miroslav today, and mine got asked: Is there space for us to …
Read MoreTuesday Volf thought 3…Curiosity
It’s been so great to hear AJ and Kathy and Steve say how much they appreciate Volf and love his spirit and his mind. I’m being reminded again how influential he’s been on my life, how much my classes with him, how chatting over coffee …
Read MoreTuesday Volf thought 1…Story
(LOTS of stuff today. I’ll try breaking into little pieces in separate posts.) One of the major points Miroslav makes in Exclusion and Embrace is this–God demonstrated profound love to human beings through Jesus’ death. As the Apostle Paul said, “while we were still enemies, …
Read MoreThe conversation tonight
As you obviously noticed from the previous blog picture posts, this trip has already been outstanding…FOUR LICENSE PLATES ALREADY, PEOPLE! And, for the rest of you interested in my astute observations on mundane life, I’ve been musing about how weird it is to be three …
Read MoreRadical inclusiveness
(Some of you will have seen this before…sorry. It’s been published in two places. But Robin’s comment on my last post asked some questions about my view on women, so I thought I’d regurgitate this for the blog.) I sighed as I climbed the stairs …
Read MoreHow Star Trek challenges Quakers
(Bob will hate this post; Star Trek is up there with Journey in his book. But, AJ might like it, or at least her dad.) There’s this moment in Star Trek: First Contact that I remembered the other day. The whole crew of the Enterprise …
Read MoreWhat’s a Pacifist to do on Veteran’s Day?
Today, we as a nation honor people for doing what I don’t think is the right thing to do: fight in war. What’s a pacifist to do? Distinguish between disagreeing with the principle of war, and disdain of the people who choose to serve in …
Read MoreWhy I’m a Quaker
I’m a Quaker because Quakers have opened up experiences with God in me that have changed my life. I’m a Friend because Friends, at our best, combine a passionate, alive, and vital experience of God with a fearless engagement of destructive social structures in the …
Read MorePeacemaking again
In a previous post, I was trying to make the point that if we get a broader view of the cross, it serves as a very helpful undergirding for living a life of peacemaking. I want to add to that, starting with this: “For God …
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