quick thought of the day
if you have more time, courtesy of Aram Mitchell:
i have had these ideas, but not so clearly, and they are dear to me. so read them. please.
and, for fun, some other fruits of the day:
yeah, I know the guy who wrote the first two
wishin' on a star
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hey, for some of the books on your list, if you get a chance to be in East Aurora, Christ the King Seminary is there and has an EXCELLENT library. Remarkable for a school of its very small size I think. That is where I got A New Kind of Christian from when I read it, and I imagine you could get Buechner from there too.
Another book you should definitely add to the list is The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal (a Holocaust survivor who spent the rest of his life dealing with Nazi War criminals--he died about a month ago). The book is about forgiveness and includes responses by 53 people like The Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu--a wide variety.
Hey bro -
Like the link about "thoughts dear to you." I've heard a lot of McLaren secondhand, but not read any directly.
I take exception with one point. I agree with the first list of things God hates: sin, selfish arrogance, indifference and hate. And we ought to be for what God is for and against what He is against. But the second list: God being against exclusion and suffering, I am not so sure about. Is God really against suffering? Perhaps, but it seems he is against sin more, it pleasing Him to have Jesus suffer to for sin. Having God be primarily concerned with suffering and exclusion seems like an attempt to remake God in a "sensitive 90's guy" definition of God and love - which I don't buy. Just ruminated on love in church Sunday - perhaps love means causing "suffering" in the short run for someone's better in the long run? Perhaps it is more loving and merciful for God to cause me to suffer and change rather than leave me in my pitiful, pathetic current state...
Peace,
Jeff
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