December 12, 2007
wednesday linkage: insomniac edition
Good (very early) morning to everyone. Here are some links for you. I'm up. Have been for an hour. I am not particularly creative this time of day. So, please forgive me if this post seems terse.
Amy has shared a reflection about change and worship, and how people may or may not invest. Powerful stuff. I enjoy her blog.
The Mainstream Baptist has posted on the Death of Democracy. Well, at least now we know.
In Defense of Subversiveness...what an army chaplain thinks.
Sr. Julie was interviewed by Dark Party. That there was an interview at all is interesting.
Larry finished an icon for Wicker Park Grace.
And there we have it...It is the second week of Advent. I am working up a sermon entitled "Joyful Prophets." This is the crux of faithful thought and action to me. The proclamation of joy and the fruition of God's Kingdom, however, does not always make it so. Nor is it meant to. And yet, proclaim joy and the Kingdom we must. This is what is often so strange about Christianity to me. We proclaim what is not yet. We are in the midst of God's redemptive work through Christ. Then again, Paul had something to say about that.
God is Truth, and God is alive and working in the world and in our hearts. It is just that sometimes, sometimes, the darkness is so great and our hearts so heavy that we cannot see...We cannot chose the light.
And that is why we must proclaim with Mary "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord. My spirit exults in God..."
We’re called to stand in this gap, between hope and fear. Not swinging between one pole or the other, in a manic depressive sway. We’re called to stay awake. Be alert. And alertness presents us from between unrealistic optimism and naivete, on the one hand, and doom and gloom despair on the other.
I'm going to try to go back to sleep.
Posted by tripp at December 12, 2007 03:06 AM"Sr. Julie was interviewed by Dark Party. That there was an interview at all is interesting."
Why?
Posted by: GFS3 at December 12, 2007 03:08 PMGFS3,
I meant no offense. I know only a little about your zine and thought your interview of Sr Julie to be an interesting choice. I just surfed around your site some more and see that such an interview is certainly within your p.o.v...Still, for some reason I find the simple fact really interesting.
Chalk it up to insomnia.
Posted by: Tripp at December 12, 2007 03:16 PMHi Tripp:
No offense was taken, I was just curious. We interview all different people -- generally anything we find compelling and Sister Julie certainly fits the bill.