If you do not yet read Mark Berry's blog, this post What does it mean to be a Christian? might wet your appetitite:
According to Pete Rollins in a fascinating (if mind melting) interview with Becky Garrison (in the Wittenburg Door)...
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It means entering into a journey of becoming one. It does not mean accepting a world view but rather entering into a healing journey of life... Being a Christian means learning how to be the opening of life into the world.
When I let myself hear that frame for being a Christian, I am filled with hope & energy.
That is not my usual response to calling myself a Christian, as an American in this moment of empire.
Chris Anderson captures some of the why in this post Thirteen words that lose their meaning when the denominator approaches infinity :
When you think about it, a lot of the English language is really about ratios within a finite set. So you can say "most Americans" and that's meaningful, because the number of Americans is approximately known and relatively static. Likewise for "few" or "many"--these words are implicitly ratios, and they assume some common agreement on what the denominator is. The world we grew up in was full of bounded sets--relatively well known and static populations that we could compare. But now we're entering a world of unbounded sets, and it's messing up our language habits.
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