If you have a moment for something thought provoking, check out Andrew Sullivan’s essay on religion and current politics. Very compelling stuff. He extends it on his own blog to be the base of his conservative political world view–basically that we need to protect ourselves from the hubris of certainty. God does play a wonderful trick on us when some of us (like me) are made certain of our own progressive vision of the reign of God–and then find ourselves nodding in solidarity with a conservative blogger. Perhaps the impulse to nod is teaching more about the reign of God than anything else. What Sullivan ultimately invites us to do is to risk open conversation about our faith–to not let the extremes of absolute belief and absolute non-belief hold control of the conversation about faith.
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O. Sam Folin | 05-Oct-06 at 10:41 am | Permalink
good post
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Rev Bev | 05-Oct-06 at 5:18 pm | Permalink
When I get all high and mighty about my own incredible “rightness of being” I usually am knocked into humility by some similar recognition that someone I least expected has actually penetrated my arrogance! When you get down to it, the only certainty is Love, its existence, its resilience, its eternal nature. And, when we move from that into certainty of anthing else we are probably moving into idolatry. BD