Comments on: statement of faith

By: Robert Fassbach

Robert Fassbach — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:56:32 +0000

Creation is really God's apostrophe, in the final analysis. Enough on apostrophes.

As you know, I lean more toward the conservative, evangelical point of view. That said, I find absoulutely no quarrel with any of your above statement of faith. In fact, it sounds a lot like a lot of the orthodoxy that I adhere to, a lot of the time! And that is saying a lot! Therefore, I can only conclude that your profession will be disdained by more liberal adherents of the faith.

By: Robert Fassbach

Robert Fassbach — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:56:32 +0000

Creation is really God's apostrophe, in the final analysis. Enough on apostrophes.

By: Drew Tatusko

Drew Tatusko — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:10:25 +0000

i came to a point where orthodoxy was a really nice and friendly term for ideology. when we try to actually do our faith and understand that faith is an action, not an ideology, it roughs up orthodoxy enough that it reveals it to be frail, just like us. and to me, that's actually a comforting thing. i don't want to have all the answers. i just want to have the right questions, and the courage to ask them by changing the world one molecule at a time if that's what i am called to do.

By: Drew Tatusko

Drew Tatusko — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:06:40 +0000

haha. all good. i read between the lines. cheers!

By: Maria Kettleson Anderson

Maria Kettleson Anderson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:47:53 +0000

I used to work hard to have all the right beliefs and be able to articulate them perfectly . . . it was important that my faith was well-defined and provided a good map as I tried to follow our Triune God.

Recently I had the privilege of spending time with an autistic boy as he grew from 7 to 10 or so . . . and it was one of the things that God used to spin my perfectly-defined non-heretical faith into something really alive for me . . .

I am convinced that God is at work to MAKE me the person God wants me to be, and that my cognitive beliefs are of far less consequence to me than is my character . . . which is being transformed as I let go of some of my addiction to analysis and definition and let that Triune God replace it with something that is out of my control as I experience life with God and with others.

The fun loop in that is that my cognitive beliefs - and analysis and definitions -- are being shaped too, and are being shaped in community with others who are being shaped by this dangerous loving God of ours.

Cheers to you as you allow God to use your perceptions as God's tool in a larger community of faith! I'm grateful to follow your thoughts here.

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:49:15 +0000

I didn't word that very well, did I? I meant thank you Makeesha for putting this out there, on Facebook where I read it and clicked through. My apologies. And I should have introduced myself too! Eek. Anyway, hi!

By: Drew Tatusko

Drew Tatusko — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:35:43 +0000

Ha! There's a funny thing happening in Wordpress where apostrophes are multiplying. Frustrating, but I don't have time to fix it.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:14:59 +0000

Thanks for putting this out there, Makeesha. It's got me thinking about what my own statement would say. I think mine would have to be sung, though. I don't know what it is about music that tends to convey God to me.

By: James McGrath

James McGrath — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:32:18 +0000

You are certainly open to accusations of heresy – either on the basis of your polytheism, or on the basis of your failure to use apostrophes. It's the same heresy, ultimately…