After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

Faith is allowing our lives to be bent toward the transcendent experience of divine action that comes to us in our negation, ministering new life to us. This is an experience of transcendence because it is a hypostatic experience (it is more than natural and material); it is the spiritual reality of finding ourselves in union with Christ.

Ministry, I believe, is the most potent form of resonance because it draws us into affection with the otherness of God’s self in and through a concrete encounter with our neighbor. This encounter calls us deeper into life as we participate affectionately and emotionally with those who are up against a death experience. It is a concrete experience (

Theology mattered greatly in the substantive moral systems the church once offered. We needed to think deeply about what certain practices do to us, both in time and in eternity. We needed to be concerned about which forms, virtues, and character traits draw us near to the divine or toward damnation.

If a congregation wants change, it will start not by being concerned with relevance and resources, but with the good life of resonance, seeking for the living Christ where Christ can be found, in the disclosure of personhood, where time is not made to accelerate but becomes full and sacred. Time becomes full and sacred through the continued disclos