monologue

a recent new york times article about blogging raised questions about the obsessive nature of this new medium for some. i don't have an obsessive bent towards the medium, but i do confess to finding it very rewarding to see that of the hundreds of readers of this blog, someone has finally joined the fray and turned the monologue into a dialog. thanks, joshua.

my hope, mind you, is not to show how brilliant i am (which would surely fail in any case) but rather to model and provoke reflection on that most difficult and important of arts: living our faith. clearly one of the ideals of the academy is the scholar who goes away to a small room with a pile of books and comes up with brilliant books. this endeavor is different. it looks more like open source theology, driven by my leading to be sure, but increasingly as others join in with posts, multiply driven. together, we will surely be wiser in following our Lord. take joshua's post, for instance. he offered a very fascinating suggestion in response to the cup holders versus creation post i did a week or so ago. he said:

" Actually just yesterday I spoke with a friend of mine who is an Associate Pastor at a large wealthy Presbyterian Church in Silicon Valley. He was walking through the parking lot on Sunday and noticing all the cars, BMW, Porsche, Mercedes, etc. He also was aware of this survey and was wrestling with how to even begin to think about this subject in his own life and in the life of his congregation. In addition to preaching, study, etc. he wanted to try and find a tangible way to get people involved in both care for creation and for the poor. He had an idea on how to encourage people to at least think more about what they drive. He has titled it Kingdom Cars and the idea is to strike a deal with a car dealership that would allow people to trade in their new or slightly used expensive fuel sucking cars for two of equal size (say a BMW x5 for a Honda CRV). The extra car would be then donated to a poor family in a neighboring community or sold and the money used for the same thing."

kingdom cars. faith as a way of driving. hmm. this conversation could be getting good.

anon, and +peace