I'm no great scholar when it comes to religious issues. However, that does not mean I don't wonder about the nature of God and how we should relate to God and what that means for how we should relate to each other. I hope to explore some thoughts about my faith journey and what I am studying. Who knows, maybe this will even be interesting to someone.
Posted by JoKeR at September 19, 2002 07:46 PMI saw your post on the BLOGGING THEOLOGICALLY meeting on PRESBYNET. I'm interesting in starting a blog, but haven't had the time yet.
What to discuss is a good question!
I'm reading "The Unnecessary Pastor" by Eugene Peterson and Marva Dawn. Marva's chapters are a study on the Letter to the Ephesians. It's provocative material.
What are you reading?
Earl Arnold
Posted by: Earl Arnold on September 20, 2002 07:27 AMI'm currently reading Spong's "Why Christianity Must Change or Die" and Peck's "People of the Lie."
I certainly intend to have a regular spot on the main page identifying what I'm reading. I'm finding that there are a lot of details involved in building a blog that fits together neatly.
Thanks for your comments.
Posted by: JoKeR on September 21, 2002 08:26 AMI haven't read either of those books, but I'm acquainted with them and have heard good things from them.
The Spong book is connected (on the theological side, I believe) with a current interest of mine, in church transformation. I have an open reading project (on my bedside table, for unconscious absorption :-) in "Can Our Church Live," by -- oops, it got moved, and I can't recall the woman who wrote it -- and "Transformational Regional Bodies" by Roy Oswald. These books are more functional, whereas I imagine Spong is more about the theology.
Keep at it!
Earl Arnold
Spong is definitly about the theological issues. That has been part of the frustration about reading his books, is that some of it excites me and then he has very little to offer for possible actions to get people involved in real transformation.
Posted by: JoKeR on September 21, 2002 09:42 PM