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emy depending on the weather and the outcome of battles but there is another strain in the biblical tradition that insists on the radical otherness of god an otherness so complete that even the use of the word god as a name for this other one is forbidden according to this understanding god is god precisely in escaping and transcending comprehension by human beings this can seem to mean that god is simply unknowable if so humans are better off not bothering about it atheism agnosticism or childish anthropomorphism all the same but here is where it gets tricky what if god s unknowability is the most illuminating profundity humans can know about god that would mean that religious language instead of opening into the absolute certitude on which all forms of triumphal superiority are based would open into true modesty the closed creation in which every question has an answer would be replaced by an infinite cosmos where every answer sparks a new question if what we mean by god is the living pulse of such open endedness then god is of no use in systems of dominance censorship power god is everywhere yes but also god is nowhere and that too shows in america especially in its fake religiosity james carroll quoted at living theology posted by jadon at 3 04 am 0 comments the shocking truth 1 in late july the metro chicago synod heard that jesus was attracting more first time visitors and baptizing more adults than any other elca pastor in the city 2 although in fact it was not really jesus who had baptized them but his irregularly commisioned staff of unordained lay ministers 3 now when jesus learned of this he left the seminary community in hyde park and went back once more toward the elca headquarters on higgins road 4 now to get there he had to go through an area just north of downtown called boystown 5 so he came to a part of boystown called northhalsted not far from the plot of ground where emperor mayor daley had ordained that the chicago cubs should play baseball 6 cub s stadium was near there and jesus tired as he was from the journey on the red line sat down at a sidewalk café table outside the bar called hydrate it was just about lunch time and though the rainbow flags were fluttering in the breeze and the music inside the bar was pumping there weren t many people around because it s often hot and miserable outside at mid day in late july in chicago 7 a waiter came to the table wearing a bright pink his his t shirt and a silence death armband and raised one eyebrow at the man seated at the table in front of him in the come follow me t shirt jesus said to him will you give me a drink 8 all the lay ministers had gone down the street to pick up subway sandwiches for the rest of the journey 9 the gay man said to him hey you tell me after all you appear to be a straight christian and i m a gay man let s face it we don t get many religious folks in boystown let alone places like this and i m not only a gay man but i m a muslim gay man so where does a guy like you get off asking someone like me for a drink for christians do not associate with gays nor with muslims if they can help it intrigued read more via ragamuffin ramblings ht dissonant bible posted by jadon at 2 34 am 0 comments being not doing and here s what really trips me up i m not convinced you can clearly define good anyway snap shots can make good and bad appear simplistically separate simplistically clear but really aren t the two more often mixed up sometimes it s the most awful things the most ugly or evil or extraordinarily pathetic that lead to positive action don t they like figuring out tough class or race related things in katrina s aftermath like wounded people turning into healers some of history s biggest embarrassments have been the reason why myriad smaller tragedies haven t happened or have actually gotten cared about and sometimes it s the most well intentioned things ever the ones dreamed up by people doggedly committed to making the world a better place that really really screw things up think manifest destiny think over protective parenting think any number of technological advances and the hiroshimas and global warmings and massive oil spills pluming in their wakes so what does it mean for me to try to do good what do i presuppose in even asking such a question while i won t try answering that i will give my conclusion you ready i know that good and bad are difficult to separate sometimes and that the good i try to do may actually harm someone or mess up something better but i m thinking that s par for this messy life course and i m certainly not excited about doing nothing because i convince myself that no matter what i do or don t do as the case may be is part of life s yin and yang so my conclusion i want to try to do good in the world because that s what i like to do i like it it makes me hopeful i like it better than doing nothing and i like it better than knowingly doing bad and heck if i understand my complex mix of motives better than that via un veilings posted by jadon at 2 18 am 0 comments works righteousness justification by politics is just another form of works righteousness we are all saved and not by our own doing or our political beliefs via i am a christian too posted by jadon at 2 13 am 0 comments if i have to approve so i have to wonder who are my jailers now and who would i like them to be via following frodo emphasis mine posted by jadon at 2 02 am 0 comments uh isn t that supposed to be christmas i hate the commercialization of this once great pagan festival what was once a time from family and neighbors has been turn into nothing more than a tool for more crass consumerism once again we have let the marketer take over a religious holiday and all we are left with is empty spirituality and empty wallets its about time we put back the hallow back in halloween hassan via the wittenburg door s chat closet posted by jadon at 1 57 am 0 comments what would jesus do last night cole got talking about christmas the entire conversation centered around santa and presents and i gently tried to remind him that christmas wasn t about the stuff we get it s about the baby jesus he looked at me with a wave of panic and hollered we have to get the baby jesus born so he can die on the cross via life in my vortex posted by jadon at 1 52 am 0 comments not quite right i know you ve probably heard this all before but it s frustrating when something so powerful in my life is diminished to something that i am not in the eyes of those around me via estelle posted by jadon at 1 35 am 0 comments uh eternal life please as the church was going on its way a young man ran up to it and fell on his knees before it good teacher he asked what must i do to inherit eternal life the church smiled down at him how about joining an alpha course or emmaus or one of our weekly study groups or maybe you d like to train as a chalice bearer or sidesman the man was puzzled very few of the words the church had used meant anything to him at all via dissonant bible posted by jadon at 1 30 am 0 comments people who are certain use the bible to become wise yet become fools people who are doubtful use the bible to receive direction yet become lost posted by jadon at 12 25 am 0 comments wednesday october 19 2005 uhhh should i be a chicken then eagles may soar but weasels aren t sucked into jet engines unknown via quotidian light posted by jadon at 4 12 am 0 comments mean spirited by the modern christian definition if your little girl dresses up as a ballerina and begs for candy with the rest of the kids on her block you might as well buy her a first class ticket to hell if your little boy dresses up as a ballerina i suspect that falls under a weightier concern but let s not get off topic it was especially difficult in explaining to my friends why i could not go to the latest horror film with them movies like amityville horror and poltergeist weren t tantalizing to me because they represented a reality however skewed by hollywood to titillate and thrill that could never be conceived by my friends this led my friends to consider me a weenie meaning i was irrationally fearful of things that were not real i have learned to revel in my weenieness because it has kept me out of a lot of trouble this also translates to a general objection to halloween people joke about things that i recognize as being very real they make light of things i find offensive if i put up a nazi flag in my front yard and played loud speaker recordings people screaming in anguish for halloween i would be facing harsh judgment on many fronts why because people have an understanding of the real evil of fascism and bigotry as well as the genocide committed in the name of that flag play that same scene with cobwebs and faces of demons with glowing eyes and i m just in the spirit of the event via the gaddabout emphasis mine posted by jadon at 3 58 am 0 comments what is it enough much off what we absorbed at last night s worship freehouse is now posted here are some of the highlights read more via unedited ravings posted by jadon at 3 50 am 0 comments compassion fear and fatigue the rumours are true disaster donations are dwindling if bird flu ever mutates to hurt humans it could be worse than all of these disasters put together this said fear of this or anything else is even worse via eternalee posted by jadon at 3 41 am 0 comments hope is dangerous if pointed in the wrong direction jeremy noted in comments to this post at jayson ca hope is coming out tonight knocking at the door you ve got to let that stranger in looking at your soul looking at your soul a peeling and a shedding mind changing what we are worth blessed are the meek somehow taking in the earth they are taking in the earth and all this talk of love and peace and wanting something true well peace can cut the rope sometimes that s holding on to me and you that s holding on to me and you from the sarah masen hope posted by jadon at 3 30 am 0 comments preserving communion now faith is the assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not seen not as a result of works so that no one may boast for by it the men of old gained approval not as a result of works so that no one may boast by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of god so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing by faith abel offered to god a better sacrifice than cain through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous god testifying about his gifts and through faith though he is dead he still speaks if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing by faith enoch was taken up so that he would not see death and he was not found because god took him up for he obtained the witness that before his being taken up he was pleasing to god not as a result of works so that no one may boast and without faith it is impossible to please him for he who comes to god must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him not as a result of works so that no one may boast by faith noah being warned by god about things not yet seen in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household by which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith not as a result of works so that no one may boast by faith abraham when he was called obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance and he went out not knowing where he was going by faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise as in a foreign land dwelling in tents with isaac and jacob fellow heirs of the same promise for he was looking for the city which has foundations whose architect and builder is god not as a result of works so that no one may boast by faith even sarah herself received ability to conceive even beyond the proper time of life since she considered him faithful who had promised if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing therefore there was born even of one man and him as good as dead at that as many descendants as the stars of heaven in number and innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore all these died in faith without receiving the promises but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth not as a result of works so that no one may boast for those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own and indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out they would have had opportunity to return but as it is they desire a better country that is a heavenly one therefore god is not ashamed to be called their god for he has prepared a city for them if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing by faith abraham when he was tested offered up isaac and he who had received the promises was offering up his only begotten son it was he to whom it was said in isaac your descendants shall be called he considered that god is able to raise people even from the dead from which he also received him back as a type if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing by faith isaac blessed jacob and esau even regarding things to come by faith jacob as he was dying blessed each of the sons of joseph and worshiped leaning on the top of his staff by faith joseph when he was dying made mention of the exodus of the sons of israel and gave orders concerning his bones by faith moses when he was born was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the king s edict by faith moses when he had grown up refused to be called the son of pharaoh s daughter choosing rather to endure ill treatment with the people of god than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin considering the reproach of christ greater riches than the treasures of egypt for he was looking to the reward if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing by faith he left egypt not fearing the wrath of the king for he endured as seeing him who is unseen if i have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge and if i have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love i am nothing by faith he kept the passover and the sprinkling of 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