A Random Roundup

These are some poems, posts, and pontifications I have enjoyed over the last week or so.

James Smith shares a poem he wrote as a speaker at a conference droned on and on.  Haven’t we all been to a conference like this?  Or a sermon so boring we start reading Lamentations so it will brighten our mood? A selected stanza:

God, of course, is no theologian.
He is a poet hidden and violated,
muzzled by the theologians.
As long as there are theologians,
God’s existence will remain in question.

Peter Rollins shares about his The Fidelity of Betrayal tour.  I am the Tom Turner he speaks of in his update.

Peter Lienhart shares a quote connecting the loss of liturgy in our world to the postmodern suspicion of deconstruction.  Not sure if I am there with him on his indirect critique of deconstruction, but a good quote to jumpstart conversation nonetheless.

“The liturgical language of religion is therefore the last human
defense against the slipperiness, ambiguity, and uncertainty of all
human acts of speech; and even these liturgical guarantees are widely
known to fail.”