The Anti-Manichaeist

The World is definitely changing.  I would take that as a given.  The issue is more about where do we draw the line and throw ourselves on God’s tender mercies and where do we bear our crosses in seeking to foster changes that show love to our neighbors and ourselves? 

I haven’t blogged lately.  It has been hard.  So much is happening so fast and it is hard to say that I would be adding anything to what others have written.  I am praying and hoping that Jim Wallis and others will listen to my ideas found in the pragmatic prolife manifesto.  And I’m hoping that even if they didn’t take it up, they’d at least provide me the dignity of a reply of some sort, as I think it merits as much. 

 I am a bit of a semi-pelagianist and so it’s hard to just let go of stuff I care about and leave it in God’s and other’s hands.  I seem to care about more things far more than I have voice about and, in the process, I may forget to care about myself.  That’s part of what hurt me in the past and if I do not learn from those lessons, I will be doomed to repeat them. 

I want to develop an ideology of participation in social/political/economic changes that is faithful to the teachings of Jesus and sustainable over time.  I do not want to put my faith in any party, democracy, reason/science.  I do want to be part of the renewal of Christianity in my country and elsewhere.  I want to pray for and testify to the importance of how God still works miracles today primarily through changed hearts and lives. 

I honestly would have no hope for our current degrading situation if I did not believe that such was possible for us. 

dlw