God
1.
God
Such a heavy word. Ask anyone their opinion on that word and the hornets nest gets rattled, the teeth come out, the tears flow. Its a heavy word, dripping in the connotations of child hood trips to church, sunday school lessons, the church choir, early childhood spiritual expierences, over bearing religious leaders, exclusiveist theologies.
We don’t really hate the word, we hate the connotations. We hate the spiderwebs, the weight of history.
2.
What is God?
What is dying is the old God. God is dead. God is dying. Not really though. The models are dying. We squirm under the weight of a god that no longer makes sense.
God does not sit outside the world waiting to judge.
God is that which the world is steeped in. God is that which we are swimming in. God is that which includes and transcends the world.
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God is love.
God is life. Life is God.
God is not a person, but the unfolding of life in our midst.
God is life! God is living.
God is that which we all participate in. That which we are all a part of. God is that which we do with each other.
God is dead, long live God!
