Monday, November 14, 2005

Next Blog

At the top of most of the blog sites through blogspot, there's a "Next Blog" button. Lately, I've been randomly moving browsing blogs. It amazes me how many people use their blogs to wrestle with issues of faith. Even in a church as open-minded as ours, I don't see people asking the same complex, reflective or difficult questions as I do out on the internet. Could it be (a) that the people who ask the most interesting/important theological questions don't come to church; (b) that when they come they don't ask their questions out loud; (c) that church doesn't provide a context for serious question asking; (d) people are asking questions at church but I simply don't hear them because too many people are relating some benign detail of their week.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:23 PM

    Is there something intrinsic about church, or Christianity, that promotes questioning?

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  2. I'm not sure what's meant by "intrinsic." Historically we have had not only persons who asked questions--like Pascal--but also institutions. Liberal Christianity, for all of its problems, has been successful in prompting a good deal of serious thinking.

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