Living in the Spirit
What does the God beyond God actually look like? Are some images - symbols, beliefs, practices, some forms of being church and following Christ - better or worse, ruled in or out?
How is the God beyond God revealed in our actual life?
“Beyond the desert of criticism”, what does our intellectual and spiritual lives begin to look like?
How do we live a “post-critical faith”, “a second simplicity”, allowing for questions, uncertainty, and complexity, without returning to a lazy or reactive regression, or to a naive approach to symbols, church membership, and religious authority? Or without giving up on faith and God altogether?
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These questions remain, and must be allowed to remain, without being solved, or systematically answered, by a definite theology, denomination, or formal religion.
And to them, we must keep adding the questions of our daily lives - life in the Real, life that matters, life in the Christ.
Above all, let God be part of the dialogue!
Let there be some surprise!
Love, forgiveness, and an end to all guilt...
An end to all dreams of mastery.
It is late autumn. 6.25 a.m. Still dark outside. House lights are coming on. Cars are beginning to leave and drive through the valley.
Blackbirds are chirping and shaking off the night.
I began this blog over two Easters ago. Thanks to everyone who has read along or dipped in.
This is my final blog post.
Much love, Mark
