Tag: tradition
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Images of Faithfulness
The images we have in our minds when we think about things or answer questions make some difference. Maybe we ask ourselves “What does it mean to be faithful?” or “Am I being faithful here?” And when we answer this question, maybe we think of ourselves as house-sitters (like, for instance, Mark 13:34-37) – so…
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Revelations, on Revelation
Elaine Pagels. Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York: Penguin, 2012. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project] Revelations by Elaine Pagels made its way to the “Read Me” shelf because learning something more about the Bible, church history and early church politics always sounds like a good thing. If…
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More on “Tradition in Action”
Notes on Awake to the Moment1, “Tradition in Action” (69-104): The second chapter of Awake to the Moment discusses Christian “tradition” as a resource for constructive theology. What most readers probably think of as tradition, “sets of shared meanings and practices that repeat, or have continuity with, the past” poses both “problems and possibilities” for…
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Notes on “Tradition in Action”
As I continue slowly wending my way through Awake to the Moment1 in the short breaks between working on class, here are a few summary notes of the first couple of pages in the next chapter, “Tradition in Action”: Tradition needs to be flexible enough to enable its adherents to respond to a changing world…
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Rare Ingredients
I grated orange zest the other day. Grating orange zest made me notice that baking has something in common with magic. Orange zest is not a particularly rare ingredient, at least not in the 21st century United States. Thank you, Florida and California! I noticed this as I pondered what to do with the extra…
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Cultural Symbolism, or Baking at Christmas
I have done some baking this Christmas, for the first time in at least a decade. I’m not entirely sure why I stopped baking at Christmas; it was probably some combination of busy-ness and overwhelm and the idea that we don’t need all that sugar around anyway and resistance and avoidance and the “complex system…
Matters of Interpretation 