episode 41: The Year in Re-Pre-Review

Enjoying the Days of Christmas following Kate Bowler’s Facebook page -   The Catalonian poopper

Pet Peeves about New Year's?

Bringing in the New Year vs Ringing in the New Year

Best year in review show: Death to 2020 on Netflix

• Rotten Tomatoes rating is only 29%, which tells you more about me, I suppose.

• Trailer https://youtu.be/veUqfcyZ_Bo

Theological issues for 2021?

1.       Does theological deconstructionism become a fad leading to fad agnosticism?

2.       As crucial as community is to faith formation, what difference might the pandemic make to people who are processing their deconstruction in isolation?  

Thinking about Stages of Faith by James Fowler, pg 293

I think it unlikely that person will develop faith beyond the Individuative-Reflective stage without committing themselves to some image or images of a faithful ultimate environment and shaping their lives in the human community so as to live in complementarity with it….The issue is finally not whether we and our companions on this globe become Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Taoists, Confucianist, or Christians, as important as that issue sis. The real question is, will there be faith on earth (Luke 18.8) and will it be good faith – faith sufficiently inclusive so as to counter and transcend the destructive henotheistic idolatries of national, ethnic, racial, and religious identifications and to bind us as a human community in covenantal trust and loyalty to each other and the Ground of our Being (pg 293).

•  Does the human tendency to find community combine with deconstructionism to move toward polarities?

• Cody describes just preaching the Beatitudes becomes polemical, “why are you getting so political?”

And we conclude with a description of an awesome birthday tradition.

See you next year!