I just got to watch the first episode of a new season of Bones. And it just makes me happy! There is something about this unlikely match between Bones and Booth, the scientist/rationalist and the person of faith/instinct that really resonates with the way I view myself and my husband. Only we are opposite the…
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So, I have a cold. Which means quite a few different things: 1) the seasons are changing in Iowa. It has been cold enough at night that some maples are already brilliant red. It is going to be a gorgeous fall. 2) it has been a wet end of summer. some corn is blighted. lots…
Wisdom of the Cross
Why do you follow Jesus? And how far are you willing to go? This past week, I got to spend some time with one of the greatest theologians of the 20th century – Jurgen Moltmann. At the age of 84, he traveled across the Atlantic Ocean to come and have a conversation with the 100…
Moltmann Conversation – Last Session Ecclesiology
• You gave me language to describe myself in Crucified God, as a person born with disability – how to people who have gifts and burdens have access to the full expression of the church In the power of the holy spirit: a disability concerned me my life long, because my older brother was a…
Moltmann Conversation – Eschatology/Science
• Billboard in MN, said “Unless you confess God cannot bless”, more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I got. It seems like a reformed idea, but I’m not sure it fits. It seems to me that God is by nature a non-contingent being. God isn’t sitting around waiting for me to do something,…
Moltmann Conversation – Breakout Workshop on the future that is coming towards us
Finding the Future Session: • Recognizing wisdom in the gathered congregation – tool for genereative listening • Cataphatic = likes images, sensual concepts; apaphatic = way of negation • Website – blog Sabbath journey (typepad) http://web.mac.com/terrychapman/A_SABBATH_JOURNEY/BEGIN_HERE_files/Moltmann%20Breakout%20Group%208-26.pdf • Icarus – Matisse… Sabbath is a way to a safe place in the heart of creation (6 stars/birds)…
Moltmann Conversation – Session 4 Justice
• War and Peace = 3 options 1) chance swords into Christian swords and become a dragon killer – the evil kingdom is oppressed, the axis of evil eliminated, etc. HCE option and atomic bombs into Christian atomic bombs; 2) leave the swords to the unbelievers – this is an option outside of the perfection…
Moltmann Conversation – Session 3 Crucified God
• Soteriology didn’t make sense until I read this book – Shroyer • Don and ann from a pastoral perspective, other speaker coming from a personal working through pain and changing ideas of God – three years since his 4 mo. Son died. Questions of where God is in the midst of that. Moltmann is…