For me and those spiritual leaders I most respect, faith, first and foremost, is awakening trustfully to all that is involved in being here. When I follow through with this as thoroughly and consistently as I can, it becomes one kind of [...]
Ever-Present Wisdom, in times of examination inspire our minds to respond truly and fully. Grant us courage to receive others’ judgments gracefully and creatively. And keep us ever mindful that nothing can separate us from the love your enfleshed life among us [...]
[This is for a group discussion on process theology at Pyre, a young adult collective supported by GraceUnlimited. There’s a more long-winded discussion here.] In one sentence, what is process thought? Reality constantly engages us as a boundless ensemble of ways of [...]
In the whole New Testament there are only three statements that try to say in just one word what sort of peculiar being God is. One says, “God is spirit” (John 4:24). Another says, “God is light” (1 John 1:5). And finally [...]
What if God is the boundless, uncontainablely meaningful,* newly relational** way of being here?*** What if the most important thing God is doing is drawing my bounded way of being here toward uncontainable meaning and new relationality? What if faith in God means [...]
OverviewSometimes the Bible presents God as a person like you and me, with much more power and knowledge, but not quite omnipotent or omniscient, subject to extreme mood-swings. God might not be the only person like this, but God demands exclusive loyalty. [...]
Why do people engage in God-talk, in talking about God and to God? There are lots of bad reasons for this that can make people easy to ridicule: "The tornado missed my trailer—too bad about yours." "I prayed and got better—maybe your [...]
However else we might try to describe God, Isaiah, Jesus, St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, John Wesley, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Paul Tillich, Alfred North Whitehead, all the Southern Baptist, Catholic, Reformed and Episcopalian theology professors I ever [...]
Here's what I think I have learned from studying and reflecting on my faith tradition while learning to appreciate others:Faith traditions can begin for all sorts of silly reasons—for example, attributing weather to the moods of one or more temperamental, very powerful [...]
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers”—Acts 2:42 (describing the first community of Christ-followers). On Sunday evenings we at GraceUnlimited continue the practice of the earliest followers of Jesus, gathering to open [...]