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This evening at the church where I work, we are starting a six-week study series called “Animate” discussing some of the foundations of Christian faith. http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/productfamily/189/Animate
The series begins with Brian McLaren challenging us to think about what it is we think we are talking about when we talk about God.
Readers who have a special interest in believing that faith in God is an escapist evasion of the harsh realities of life, like to suggest that the Jewish Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel lost his faith in God during his internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
I am sitting in the back of a large church. There are three sections of fifteen rows of pews in front of me filled with 500 children between the ages of five and twelve.
I can only imagine that a flattering movie review from writer and spiritual entrepreneur Deepak Chopra comes as manna from heaven for a major contender in the competition for the Oscars. But, I hope Terrence Malick does not read Chopra’s recent take on his film “The Tree of Life”.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deepak-chopra/a-review-of-the-tree-of-l_b_1240536.html?ref=religion
Lulu is a primary school student who attends a church school in Scotland. Recently she came home from school and wrote a letter:
To God how did you get invented? From Lulu o x
http://www.alexrenton.com/index_files/Page501.htm
Lulu’s father Alex Renton who is a journalist and professes that he does not believe in God, was taken aback by his daughter’s letter. Unsure how to respond, he forwarded his young daughter’s correspondence to a number of experts including Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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In the face of the tragedy of Japan Brian McLaren has offered a beautiful response to John Piper’s sovereign God who inflicts disaster upon the earth for God’s own good purpose.
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It is tempting, when challenged to speak about my experience of God to respond with words from the thirteenth century German mystic Meister Eckhart who said,
Nothing is so like God as silence.
If silence is the closest approximation we have to God, perhaps it is wise to be quiet in the face of the divine mystery that theists believe lies at the source of all life.
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she gave birth to her firstborn son
and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger,
because there was no place for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7)
How many times have we known that there is “no place for ” us “in the inn”?
How many times have we felt dislocated and alienated by the circumstances of our lives? How much loneliness is there in the world? How desperate is our need to belong? How many times have we failed to find that sense of belonging for which we yearn?
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Goodbye God
July 7, 2012 in Current Comment | Tags: European Center for Nuclear Research, God, Large Hadron Collider, Laurence M. Krauss | 6 comments
I am less than ill-qualified to make any comment upon the Higgs-Boson Particle story that hascreated such a stir in the media over the past week.
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