Comments on: Something beautiful http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2006/04/21/something-beautiful/ uncovering life's layers, exploring truth's terrain... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Kristin http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2006/04/21/something-beautiful/#comment-1272 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:35:39 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2006/04/21/something-beautiful/#comment-1272 Darius, you're right. I don't think the Gospel is so clear, and Christianity itself--saying nothing of the Bible--has many voices. I simply love the kind of community Jenell describes, the kind of things made possible by it. I love the idea of "loved one" being a starting point for identity formation, and resting and growing in spaces where the rules of cultural privilege and fear don't apply. Darius, you’re right. I don’t think the Gospel is so clear, and Christianity itself–saying nothing of the Bible–has many voices. I simply love the kind of community Jenell describes, the kind of things made possible by it. I love the idea of “loved one” being a starting point for identity formation, and resting and growing in spaces where the rules of cultural privilege and fear don’t apply.

]]> by: Darius http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2006/04/21/something-beautiful/#comment-1271 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:47:25 +0000 http://www.kristinnoelle.com/2006/04/21/something-beautiful/#comment-1271 I like it too, but what the writer calls the Gospel, and for that matter the New Testament as a whole, isn't really so clear. The text is a multiauthored anthology. In Open Christianity, Jim Burklo says something along the lines of the result of this ambiguity is that we have to choose our Jesus, so to speak... I like it too, but what the writer calls the Gospel, and for that matter the New Testament as a whole, isn’t really so clear. The text is a multiauthored anthology.

In Open Christianity, Jim Burklo says something along the lines of the result of this ambiguity is that we have to choose our Jesus, so to speak…

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