In our discussion of Colin Gunton’s chapter titled The Shape of the Christian Life…
Our group (surprise, surprise) departed from the reading for a large chunk of our discussion time. In a moment of brilliance, one member suggested that we start by sharing how each of our histories related to pneumatology has looked. At first glance I assumed it wouldn’t be a…
“Pieces of a whole cannot escape sharing the nature of the whole…”
Basil The Great, one of the “Church Fathers” we are reading from, wrote the above quotation in describing the Holy Spirit and how the Spirit fits into the Trinity. He…
Blog post #2: Holy Spirit, the body, trauma, and martyrs
“It is is the deep, deep night that hovers over the sources of all human actions, even over all…
This week, The Jürgies read a chapter from Jürgen Moltmann’s book, The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life. In the week since our conversation, Seattle’s city council has just voted to divest $3 billion from Wells Fargo, and the Army Corps has granted the final permit required for…