https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/03/05/to-know-and-to-love-well/ A Global Immersion Site Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:38:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/03/05/to-know-and-to-love-well/#comment-385 Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:38:50 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1562#comment-385 Eline. There is so much in here that challenges me…and inspires me to become ever more spacious in my theology. It leads me to consider the myth that certainty (supposed mastery and defense of a perspective) is the fruit of maturity. However, it strikes me that the older I get and the more I’m exposed to, the less certain I am. Certainty was the concrete stuff of my youth…a season in which I was far from mature. Wonder that leads to deepened understanding may be the fruit of maturity. I wonder how these thoughts contribute to how we can analyze an article like Cosper’s. Not simply to critique what I would suggest is a nearsighted certainty that carries lethal implications, but to allow it to be a mirror to us in which we may be able to observe our own tendency toward certainty that might destroy more than it restores.

]]> https://joh.globalimmerse.org/2024/03/05/to-know-and-to-love-well/#comment-357 Wed, 06 Mar 2024 05:55:45 +0000 https://joh.globalimmerse.org/?p=1562#comment-357 Eline, Thank you for sharing a real life example from your parenting, and your vulnerability in sharing your internal wiring with us. I resonate with your experience of closure to ideas that are familiar to you. Knowing that the work of “thinking slow” requires energy- are their practices that you have found useful in sustaining this work?

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