Williams’ answer is deceptively simple, but it is not deceitful. It reminds me of a line from the Jungel prayer I posted last week; it has been haunting me ever since: “we are afraid to share with others what you have given us”. Generosity is suffocated, squeezed out, by fear.
So, what [...]
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Fear and (the lack of) Generosity
Posted in Uncategorized on October 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Memory and Violence
Posted in Uncategorized on October 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Remembering, like any human act, can be done rightly or wrongly; that is faithfully or faithlessly. In Psalm 137, we hear the lament of exiles wrongly remembering.
By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
our tormentors demanded songs [...]
A Pentecostal Confession of Faith
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, God is far away,
Christ stays in the past,
the Gospel is a dead letter,
the Church is simply an organisation,
authority a matter of domination,
mission a matter of propaganda,
the liturgical services no more than a reminder of the past,
Christian living a slave morality.
BUT WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, God is with us,
the universe is resurrected
and [...]
Christian Political Responsibility: Some Reflections on the Torture Debate
Posted in Uncategorized on October 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
In the so-called “Post-9/11 world,” torture has become a hot-button issue, with Christians lining up on both sides of the debate. A recent poll found that “a majority of Southern evangelicals” support torture – at least until they are reminded of the Golden Rule! A Pew Forum research survey, published in 2005, found that more [...]
On Christian Joy §5
Posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Christian joy contradicts the world’s joy.
There is a joy that distracts us from reality – especially the reality of death. This joy is better called amusement, which, according to the OED, once meant:
Distraction or diversion of the attention from the point at issue; beguiling, deception. esp. in military tactics, diversion of the enemy’s attention from [...]
