Folks,
I'm preparing to facilitate a class at my church this fall entitled
"Living the Questions." It takes an unapologetically Liberal view of
Christianity. Which is to say, there are plenty of people who count
themselves Christians who would consider it not only un-Christian, but
possibly anti-Christian.
In the middle of the first lesson video, Bishop John Shelby Spong, whom
I have quoted at length here, (credited on the video as "Jack Spong" and
appearing in a sweatshirt and baseball cap, looking very un-Bishop-y)
says something that I wish everyone who finds today's flavor of fundie
Christianity just too damn much to stomach, could hear:
"I think certainty is a vice in religion, one of the things that
ought to rid ourselves of. I would constantly want to hold this
wrestling -- this uncomfortable 'I don't have it together'
struggling -- as the proper image for the Christian faith. We
walk into the mystery of God. We never arrive. And if we think
we have arrived, we have become an idolater."
This, just in case you thought that the "God said it, I believe it, that
settles it" crowd had completely taken over.
Dave
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