Sublime

The pastor, then, must do something much more difficult than our ancestors had to: she must contend that a personal God can act in an impersonal universe and therefore challenge the theory that the universe is closed.

Dean Becker, the CEO of Adaptiv Learning Systems, has been researching and developing

But this would avoid the source of the malaise, which is the opaqueness of divine action. We must speak of God’s being in and through God’s action in order to have something to talk about in a pastor’s identity and function in this age. People find it impractical to talk about God, but the only way to get to something practical is to talk about God

Dunham, as you might guess, is not much given to religious impulses, but she is quietly fascinated by Karr’s faith, her association with this guy “Jesus.” So Dunham asks: “What’s it like to be a person who thinks and cares about Jesus and has religion in your life but hangs out with the New York literati?” Karr tries to defuse some mistaken impress

Barth’s strategy was to find within biblical language itself a way to speak of God’s breaking into a modern world framed by immanence.

The youth with faith are those conforming to the youth group through affiliation.

Christian theology, when done right, proceeds from Christian practice and belief rather than preceding or prescribing Christian practice.

(And remember, this was done not to lower the bar of commitment to God but to raise it.)