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Second Saturday Conversation – January 10, 2026
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Our next Second Saturday Conversation is January 10. In January and February I am going to turn to John D. Caputo’s book What to Believe? Twelve brief lessons in radical theology. What to Believe is a question. And an important one for us on Second Saturday who think the question is more important than some of the answers we have been given.
A number of you have read this book. I hope all of you do. Whether you have read it or not, I am going to do my best to provide a brief summary. I do so because I think Jack’s work is important, critical for our reimagining what theology is and what we are talking about when we talk about God. And why it matters.
Quotes from the book are prompts for our exploration:
“Radical theology is a theology of the event, where what matters is not what we believe but what happens, what breaks into our lives and transforms us.”
“To believe is not to be certain, but to live with the risk of hope, to lean into the unknown with a trembling trust.”
I can think of no better way to begin a new calendar year than to ask what we believe. And to do so with the guiding hand and heart of Jack Caputo to help us dare to think, dare to imagine. And dare to remember.
“Let us remember that we are in the presencing of God, of the coming to be of God, of the insistence of God, of the may-being of God. Let us remember that we are summoned to be part of the history of God, of God becoming God in the world. Let us remember that with God, with the event that is harbored in the name (of) ‘God,’ all things are possible, up to, and including the impossible.”