tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060330524144925414.post4308254807576852910..comments2023-07-03T03:20:10.934-05:00Comments on Recondite Cogitations: Sally Forth Oh Man Of HonorificabilitudinitatibusCWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588945314128634486noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060330524144925414.post-2504408398017554052010-02-16T10:11:16.421-06:002010-02-16T10:11:16.421-06:00Having been a child of the Jesus Movement, I can r...Having been a child of the Jesus Movement, I can remember when the Evangelicals first began. They had a handful of really good teachers back in the 70s. At the time it looked like they were poised to become the true church. If they could ever get back to their origins and purge the crooks and nonsensical teachings that have taken over, then they could be the answer to everything once again. I'm not holding my breath though. We'll just have to pray for God's will in things.<br /><br />Thanks for your input and encouragement.CWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13588945314128634486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060330524144925414.post-31025712837056255542010-02-14T18:45:17.914-06:002010-02-14T18:45:17.914-06:00Hey Charles (if I may). I just stumbled across yo...Hey Charles (if I may). I just stumbled across your blog from your youtube page (I'm a huge George MacDonald fan and I'm actually the cousin of yt user gcuezy). Anyway, don't have any advice or anything, but you're not alone - I've been having the same sort of experience. Finding a church that doesn't fall into so many of the pitfalls of evangelical theology but still holds on to the fullness of "mere Christianity" is not very easy. Good luck(, or, Providence is good), brother.Abobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060330524144925414.post-61209179860209586692010-02-10T22:20:34.903-06:002010-02-10T22:20:34.903-06:00I like Yancey too Ann. I haven't read that one...I like Yancey too Ann. I haven't read that one, but I sure like the title!<br /><br />I haven't read much at all from Wesley. He's one of those figures like Kirkegaard, Augustine, or Pascal where everybody has a couple of 2nd hand quotes from them, but few people seem to have actually read them. Wesley is one of those on my mental "to read" list.<br /><br />I got your message about the "hedgehog" book. The reviews look interesting. I may give it a go. I finished the Hesse book, and I'm now about 150 pages into Neil Gaiman's _Neverwhere_.<br /><br />So many books--so little truth.CWShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13588945314128634486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060330524144925414.post-18605844872389428972010-02-10T15:22:43.595-06:002010-02-10T15:22:43.595-06:00The journey is not ever done. Mount up with wings...The journey is not ever done. Mount up with wings like eagles is a promise that will be kept I wager. I was baptized Methodist as a babe and some sixty years later I am a better member of a Methodist Church. I've churched around a _lot_: Catholic, Universalist, YouNameIt-ist. I found, or it found me, Philip Yancey's book Soul Survivor How My Faith Survived the Church. And that was me. I appreciated and even loved the same heretic soul survivors as Mr. Yancey. Gauguin who scribbled on his last Tahitian triptych: D'ou venons-nous, Que sommes-nous?, Ou allons-nous?<br />Dostoevsky the brooding mess of a man who having left the horror of prison was reborn. He wrote of the sheer generosity of life. "Life is everywhere, life is in ourselves, not in the exterior." And, "Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all."<br />Augustine, now the Saint, once prayed to the effect: God save me, but not yet.<br />Someone said, "If you don't wake up every morning and ask yourself if you still believe it today you don't know what faith is." Was it de Chardin?<br />Some ten or more years ago I stopped church shopping. I went back to the church Don and I were married in some 40 years ago. And the theology, better the way of life, of John Wesley spoke to me as I read his sermons and books. There is a way to holiness which is kindness, charity, love- _lived_. Of course he wrote much theology, but living the Life was his way. Almost no one in my church has read much Wesley or even knows much about him. But, you know what? That doesn't matter. Everywhere I look people are trying to live the Life; they are soul survivors. It may be a good thing that the Methodist Church is not a 'creedal' church. One finds one's way, in prayer by Grace. Prevenient Grace.<br />I have to be reminded constantly to "see". Really see. Just recently I read The Elegance of a Hedgehog and was reminded to "see" all over again. <br />As for the irritating and even infuriating practices of the church as anything other than a place to worship God with other people who come to worship God, aka church as business, political forum, honing personal axe place, I let all of that go. Poof! God bless us. God IS as God IS. We have nothing but opinions. Pray we're not too far off the rails God has set for us. Love your blog, Bill. Love its honesty.Annnoreply@blogger.com