here goes...

SADNESS
is when you turn your face away from someone you like a lot (okay, another emotion, (arg!) could be someone you love) saying "I hear what you're saying and I respect you"
INSTEAD OF holding them close close close, shaking them, shouting in their ears "JUST LET ME FIX YOU!"
sadness is sitting on your hands looking into the face ( Read more... )

the reversal of social roles is a sign of the kingdom of god ( Read more... )

and, also, i am learning to express emotions. Ask me if I enjoy that. I dare you.
so this poem is a little bit like expressing anger. i think. alternately, it is self-assertion and confidence.
( a useful poem )

people, here's some background. I live under a rock; i don't watch movies. I also don't have a mind for names (read: I don't care about them or collect them). I know 5 movie stars by sight, and they are as follows: Robin Williams, Leonardo DiCaprio, Drew Barrymore, Chris Rock, and Hilary Swank (although if that woman would put on a pound or two, i ( Read more... )

I don't impose consistency
YES
that is true
people want to IMPOSE CONSISTENCY on life and on the gospel and on things like that and I refuse. And you'd think my feet are unsteady and what do I know anyway -- and I say I'm as steady as a kid on a jungle gym, and I was a careful kid (mom never worried), and it's way more fun up here, off the ground.

remember this? the GOOD NEWS OF GOD?
i'm madly in love, still.

what about "the dominion of God"? I need a better word for kingdom, still. not the "kingly order" of God. not the territory of God. the reign of god? the rule of god?

THE TIME IS RIGHT, AND THE __(something)__ OF GOD HAS COME NEAR. CHANGE YOUR MINDS AND PARTICIPATE IN IT!

I discovered what I am going to do with my life other than be a professor. You see, there are a lot of women becoming pastors these days (no? okay, not Catholic priests, but lots of Presbyterian pastors) and these poor women are all ready to get dressed up in the appropriate clerical garb and look great and confident and happy as they preach the ( Read more... )

That's what Luke said about last night ( Read more... )

All i want to do is play with NT texts. I want to dig my hands into their sandbox and stir, sort, sift, build, tear down, laugh. They are so puzzling, complicated, weighty, important. I love thumbing through my Synopsis Quattour Evangeliorum and paying more attention to the Latin notes than to the English. It makes me feel very alive - very alive ( Read more... )

I have to learn Korean and move to Korea and be a minjung theologian. NOT KIDDING ( Read more... )