Skylights and Seasoned Tongue-and-Groove

 I offered an overview of our year. Where I started in September 2023 and where we arrived in June 2024.  A non-linear recap for a non-linear year. But thematic threads ran throughout.   Our guests were Scott Holland who introduced us […]

At our Second Saturday Conversation May 11, 2024 Jeff Creswell hosted and invited reflections on a William Stafford Poem, “The Way it is”.  A major image in that poem is the thread.  Jeff invited us to identify threads in our

For our April 13, 2024 Second Saturday Conversation I continued exploring dogmatics and poetics. In this session I contrasted theology and Theopoetics.   To suggest one contrast: Theology declares.  Theopoetics  invites. Both theology and Theopoetics are responses to the mystery of

I began a conversation titled Poetics not Dogmatics. (Poetics is a broader category than poetry.) Poetics invites, provokes, engages imagination. Dogmatics are definitive and determinative. Poetics is open.  Dogmatics seeks closure. The language of poetics (and it is not always

February 10 we had the pleasure of having Belden Lane as our guest for Second Saturday Conversation: “Standing Together in Awe: Four Stages in our Learning to Love the Natural  World.”  Belden led us through our “using” the natural world

January 13, 2024 Second Saturday Conversation continued our discussion about Jesus.  Does he continue to be an important figure for us today?   He affirms our human possibility. And describes a very different God than was presumed in his day.

In the December Second Saturday Conversation we had John D. Caputo and Bernard Brandon Scott as guests. They provide a rich, in-depth, challenging view to our understanding of Jesus in our post-modern time under the light and examination of philosophical,

Second Saturday Conversation November 11, 2023 I highlighted three topics. The first the name God. Arguably a name that has been used in more languages than any other  to refer to our “ultimate concern “ or “point of ultimate reference.”

October 14, 2023 we had Scott Holland as our guest. Scott knows well what led to the emergence of Theopoetics as both a critique of theology and an invitation to imagine it differently. Scott is not only a professor of

We begin our fourth year of Second Saturday Conversation.  Welcome.   In this session I introduce some themes we will explore this year: Theopoetics an invitation to an imaginative approach for exploring theology, “ dangerous memory” (Johann Baptist Metz) and