"It is not the gift- and skill-sets – the intelligence and imagination, the range of reading, the elegance and wit – that separate the great theologian from the good one. The difference lies not in the brilliance but the defects. It takes a magnificent flaw to make a great theologian." Kim Fabricius
Why Bother?
"I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living!" Psalm 27:13 I consider the brokenness of the world and I think, "Why bother?" I look at the corruption all around me and I cry, "Why bother?" I wonder at my inability to live with my neighbour... Continue Reading →
Grace is…
I have just discovered this gem of a series called 'On the Cost and Grace of Parish Ministry' by Jason Goroncy. What follows is a snippet from the ninth part of the series on the subject of Sabbath. Sabbath is a setting free, and this happens "through Jesus Christ who in his incarnation entered into the nothingness... Continue Reading →
We don’t do grace too well
We are in a bind are we not? I mean, a church is a community of mixed people, at every conceivable stage of life and experience, but together never-the-les. The bind though, is that we are in this community as individuals gathered to love and serve the Lord and each other - and by-and-large, we... Continue Reading →
Listen to your life
"If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say as a novelist and as a preacher, it would be something like this: Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than... Continue Reading →
Gralefrit Theology 