Driving home from Waskesiu yesterday, Wendy asked me what I was thinking and I couldn’t tell her the truth. I was trying to name off all of the NFL’s starting, backup, and third string quarterbacks of all 30 teams from memory. The scary thing is that not only did I name them, I also was [...]
Lent/Easter
Hypocrisy
Warren Kinsella has a good post on spirituality, praxis, and politics. He starts it with this In the shadow of Easter, on a miserly, cold Sunday, the subject of today’s sermon is an old one: hypocrisy. and finishes with this Sitting in church, I am reminded of that political trusim every once in a while. [...]
The Third Word
“Women, behold thy son!”…”Behold thy mother!” John 19:26-27 (KJV) From Stanley Hauerwas’ Cross Shattered Christ …Indeed I think we can only appreciate Jesus’ commending Mary to the beloved disciple, as well as his charge to the disciples to regard Mary as his mother, when we recognize that Mary is not another mother. Rather, Mary is the [...]
Interview with Stanley Hauerwas
This comes from Rick Bennett’s blog, one of those weblogs that if you don’t read it, you should be reading it. He linked to this interview with theologian Stanley Hauerwas about the Cross Shattered Christ. Below is a portion of it. One of the most challenging chapters was the one on the words “My God, [...]
The First Word
“Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23:34 From Chapter One of the Cross Shattered Christ by Stanley Hauerwas It is also a stark reminder that these words are not first and foremost about us; about our petty sinfulness. It is the Second Person of the Trinity who asks, [...]
Holy Week
No contextless links this week. Instead I am going to blog about some things I have been mediatating on after reading and re-reading Stanley Hauerwas’ book, Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations On The Seven Last Words. Some longer essays that I am working on may make their way online as well but for the next little while [...]
