(Ir)religiosity

I had every intention of finishing up my thoughts on Transforming Christian Theology and the series on constructive theology over the holidays.  So much for that.

Early tomorrow morning I will be flying to Havana, Cuba with a group from BU STh for a class on the Gospel and Empire and will be there for 10 days.  I won’t have cell service or internet access so my online thoughts will have to wait until I return.

Immediately following that trip I will be attending local pastor’s licensing school for the New England Conference.  Oh, and then school starts sometime.

So all of that is to say I am alive but will be very busy for the next several weeks.  Who knows how long it will before I have time to blog.

Today as we celebrate the divine rupture in human history over and against the narratives of consumption and rugged individualism, I find the words of the late Oscar Romero especially poignant.

No one can celebrate
a genuine Christmas
without being truely poor.
The self-sufficient, the proud,
those who, because they have
everything, look down on others,
those who have no need
even of God – for them there
will be no Christmas.
Only the poor, the hungry,
those who need someone
to come on their behalf,
will have that someone.
That someone is God.
Emmanuel.  God-with-us.
Without poverty of spirit
there can be no abundance of God.

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