JUst found this blog while reading the blogs I often frequent, and there are many of them already here. The project of bringing Radical Orthdoxy theology into close relation with preaching and teaching is something I hope to find embodied in a face to face community, but short of that, I am thrilled to have another blog to visit and to be challenged further.
Preaching suffers today because it has become ensnared in all the pitfalls of modern society. Preaching is often little more than self-help or pop psychology. It is rational discourse. It is made to be the be all end all of Christian worship. Preaching is oftentimes placed in dialectical tension with theology. Theology becomes valid only “if it will preach.”
This blog represents an attempt to, in Will Willimon’s words, to “preach Christ and Him crucified, not humanity and it slightly improved.”
Amen. I like to think that I am FOR the vision of humanity as God has intended it; which is something far outreaching the limitations we end up placing on God by erring too far in the wropng direction.
