beauty. (t)ruth. god.

I haven’t blogged in long time. I think the longest time in over a year. If I had to guess it has less to do with me having nothing to say (since most of you know I always have something to say), but rather my life has lately been captivated by what it means to follow Jesus, given my conceptions of faithfulness. Not surprisingly this didn’t start in mind, but rather in my interactions with a wonderful small group of people who met at my house. Our conversations since January have given me much more to think in the actual realities of following Jesus I profess to believe, then my former reading and collection of information.
All that to say, I think I am ready to start blogging again. But as I move towards that here is a current quote that has my mind captured:

Then to follow Jesus does not mean renouncing effectiveness. It does not mean sacrificing concern for liberation within the social process in favor of delayed gratification in heaven, or abandoning efficacy in favor of purity. It means that in Jesus we have a clue to which kinds of causation, which kinds of community-building, which kinds of conflict management, go with the grain of the cosmos, of which we know, as Caesar does not, that Jesus is both the Word (the inner logic of things) and the Lord (“sitting at the right hand”). It is not that we begin with a mechanistic universe and then look for cracks and chinks where a little creative freedom might sneak in (for which we would then give God credit): it is that we confess the deterministic world to be enclosed within, smaller than, the sovereignty of the God of the Resurrection and Ascension. “He’s got the whole world in his hands” is a post-ascension testimony. The different it makes for political behavior is more than merely poetic or motivational.