I’ve been reflecting on some of the ideas I’ve been learning about in my Ministry Across Cultures class, and also what I just heard in my class about Paul this morning. The dichotomy that has been trying to hold in tension is between boundaries and borders. I think that distinction is an important one in the way we think of ecumenism and multiculturalism.
Posts Tagged Lutheran
Boundaries and Borders
Sep 11
A Different Mirror
Sep 10
I’m going to try to blog all of the little writing assignments I have throughout the semester. In my Ministry Across Cultures class, we’re reading A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki. and have been asked to write a reflection about the first chapter.
Here is the question:
Describe briefly takaki’s frame for what it means to be “American” Using this frame, how might we re-think our idea of what it means to be Lutheran?
My Theology of Baptism
Aug 29
As I’ve pondered my own understanding of baptism recently I have come to realize that it has been somewhat theologically problematic for me. I think that far too often it is treated as a kind of magical act where a baby is insured of a crass kind of “fire insurance”. That understanding of baptism, although it seems quite common in folk piety, is antithetical to my understanding of how God works in the world. So that leaves me with a quandry. If baptism should not be understood in that way, what is it?
