(Ir)religiosity

Peter Rollins has an excellent post on why/how he denies the resurrection that has been bouncing around the blogosphere over the last week or so.  If you haven’t read it you should, he has some good food for thought.  Ultimately, insisting on rigid assent to the factuality and historicity of the resurrection misses the point.  Indeed, one could assent to such propositions and still unashamedly deny the very existence and power of the  resurrection. The point is not so much what may or may not have happened in the past, but what is happening now in the continued present and on into the im/possible future.

This strikes to the very root of belief.  Todd Littleton offers a great comment:

We cannot say what we believe. We only do what we believe.

Jonathan Brink has two excellent posts that address this very thing.  Our true, and often hidden belief, it seems to me at least, lies not in our creedal propositions or our elaborate systematic theologies (though those are not without some merit) but in our naked encounters with the other and our willingness to allow oursleves to be transformed by such a meeting.  It is in that moment and through that event that our true belief, birthed through vulnerability and empathy and with complete disregard for dignified formulation, is laid bare for all to see.

We simply cannot rightly speak of what we truly believe.  It evades the very extremities of our language and discourse.  For true, transformative belief — and in theology I cannot think of any legitimate belief except that which truly transforms — can only be made known within the realm of relationship and the sphere of praxis.

I read a lot.  Most of the time, when I’m not on the computer (yes, I actually do put it down sometimes!) I’m reading.  But I feel like I’m really slow and inefficient.  I’d like to find a comfortable way to be more faster and more productive.  So I want your suggestions.  What is your method for reading?  How to do process what you read?  Do you take notes?  Underline?  Highlight?  None of the above?  I’m not really interested in speed reading per se, just reading a little faster.  Thoughts?

So what was it?  I felt like I didn’t pay as much attention to the commercials this year.  But outside of the movie trailers I have to go with the Doritos spot.  It got an actual, out loud laugh out of me the first time.

What was your favorite ad?