couple of questions

Couple of questions that have bugged me since I got here.

1. How Biblical should our faith be? How should it structure our thought? Should our theology always be couched in Biblical language? If not, how do we keep in touch with the history of our faith?
2. What binds Christians in the Body of Christ? Do we believe in Jesus in name only, with each having her or his personal Jesus? What is the Gospel? Is it that Jesus died for our sins? Or that we should help the needy? Or both?
3. Is the apostle Paul a faithful disciple of Christ or did he "create" a religion that Jesus did not intend? If he is a faithful disciple how do we reconcile Pauline theology with that we find in the Gospel narratives?
4. Is the statement, "Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life," the Truth or a truth? What is wrong with claiming an ultimate revelation in Christ that is exculsive? Is there not an exclusivist train of thought in the Bible that runs along side inclusivist thought?
5. What does it mean to "believe" in something? This word above all has become very confusing for me in seminary. Some begining question. Feel free to post your honest thoughts.

Gotta start this all somehow

Hopefully, some of the fellas who were hashing it out on a facebook note will start some conversation here.

Until then...just to throw something out there:
check out this time magazine article on the pope's upcoming visit to America

Sorry don't have much time to respond/comment now.

peace,
mike

New Site

Friends, this site needs some stuff:

1. A cool name
2. A cool picture/graphics
3. people to create gmail accounts and email mwatsonpc@gmail.com with their email and request to be a "site author".
4. people to use it a lot.
5. and really, any other ideas you may have to get this off the ground.

let the blogging begin!

Out of a recent, and still ongoing, discussion over someone's 'note' they posted on facebook, I came to the realization that the campus of Union-PSCE has got a LOT to say from all different angles and it's about time we get around to communicate more.

Thus, I am starting this blog site in hopes that we, as a community of seminarians, faculty, staff, and all those interested, may join in healthy discourse in this easily accessible and technologically advanced form of communication. Whereas one-on-one discourse is still preferable, you've got to start somewhere!

So let the blogging begin!