Praise Barth, who told how saving Faith can flow
From Terror's oscillating Yes and ...
Praise, praise
Poetry
I am in love with the essay, "Atheism is Wasted on the Nonbeliever," by Richard Rodriguez, which I read for one of my classes this term. A few theological ideas have been swimming around in my head for the past several ...
Atheism is Wasted on the Nonbeliever
Theology Quote
I've been trying to make sense of this whole plurality thing. I'm no universalist, I'm learning, but only because it impinges on our freedom. Someone in my Balthasar class said the other week how universalism works in the ...
“The plurality of religions … is due primarily to the simplicity of the uneducated”
Theology Quote
This semester I wrote two final papers that meant very much to me: my Theological anthropology and my Relational Hermeneutic. The first one is dear to my heart because I was able to, somehow, use a metaphor for God ...
Truest
From Lauren
"Saying what something is not doesn’t give people a clear picture of what that something actually is."
OK. I do this all the time--especially in papers, I guess. Here's why it's a bad ...
Negation
From Lauren
how should tasting touching hearing seeing
breathing any--lifted from the no
of all nothing--human merely being
doubt unimaginable You?
-- e.e. cummings, "i thank You God for most this ...
How?
Poetry
"Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations. Man chooses either life or death, but he chooses; everything ...
Acts of Heaven or Hell (via W.H. Auden)
Book Quote, Theology Quote
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I wish 15-year-old Lauren liked herself more.
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Do you think you are:
:x: Pretty = naw not really
:x: Funny = sarcastic, sure. Funny... i dont know
:x: Hot = lol NO
:x: Friendly = i think so...
:x: Ugly = ...
Blessing the Younger Me (Part 2)
From Lauren
So my kind-of therapist, Andrew, has been telling me to bless the younger version of me, the 12-15 year old fundie, who was a judgmental, self-centered little bigot. So I'm kind of doing that. Uhh, I'm trying to, anyway. ...
Blessing the Younger Me (Part 1 of Many)
From Lauren
I'm transcribing a video for work about craftsmen and women, those who blow glass, make jewelry, baskets. I am moved by one woman's story in particular, about her husband whom she collaborated with for 20 years.
He had a ...
The Church
From Lauren
I'm in a spiritual formation class right now--Prayer, Practice, and Presence--so I spend a lot of time thinking of prayer. Maybe not doing it quite as much.
On Monday, though, on the way to the bus stop, I rushed into a ...
Prayer
From Lauren
Nothing says election season like Derek Webb's music!
[haiku url="http://me.laurendeidra.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/A-New-Law.mp3" title="A New Law"]
Don't teach me about politics and government
Just tell me who ...
A New Law by Derek Webb
Music