http://currentsoffaith.com Ruminations on culture, religion, and politics from diverse perspectives of faith. Sat, 26 Feb 2011 01:04:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://currentsoffaith.com/2009/01/09/living-in-process-ix-27-acting-my-age-living-this-week/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2009/01/09/living-in-process-ix-27-acting-my-age-living-this-week/#comments Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:20:41 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=95 I just do not know how to “act my age.” I read an article in the newspaper recently which spoke of an elderly man, aged 75. “Yikes!” I thought, “Does this mean that I am supposed to be elderly, since I am months away from that age?” I just do not feel elderly! In fact, [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2009/01/09/living-in-process-ix-27-acting-my-age-living-this-week/feed/ 4 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/12/18/living-in-process-ix-26%c2%a0imagining-flights-into-mystery/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/12/18/living-in-process-ix-26%c2%a0imagining-flights-into-mystery/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:42:09 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=77 My theology leaves me with a number of questions, wonderings, and imagining. They go in all directions: outward, inward, backward, forward, downward, and upward. In fact, directions fail me when I ponder the realms I do not understand and wonder about possibilities which might come into being. Process theology does not grant me all the [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/12/18/living-in-process-ix-26%c2%a0imagining-flights-into-mystery/feed/ 1 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/12/10/living-in-process-ix-25-hovering-possibilities-signs-of-hope/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/12/10/living-in-process-ix-25-hovering-possibilities-signs-of-hope/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:13:44 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=73 In the midst of many negative happenings in our world I see signs of hope. I have described a number of transformations in my faith brought about by my theology. I now  point to significant events in the wider world where creative new ideas have emerged. Some of God’s possibilities for the world have found [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/12/10/living-in-process-ix-25-hovering-possibilities-signs-of-hope/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/11/26/living-in-process-viii-24-visioning-america-to-seek-the-common-good/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/11/26/living-in-process-viii-24-visioning-america-to-seek-the-common-good/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:37:29 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=71 My mother was always for the underdog. I learned my original concern for the world from her. This concern grew with my ongoing distress watching my brother being abused by my father. I did not have the foggiest notion of what to do with these concerns other than worry and feel guilty that I did [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/11/26/living-in-process-viii-24-visioning-america-to-seek-the-common-good/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/11/14/living-in-process-viii-23-relating-sexually-god-experiences-both-sides/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/11/14/living-in-process-viii-23-relating-sexually-god-experiences-both-sides/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:24:39 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=69 I learned about sex from my mother, older brother, high school friends, and the barnyard. I recall vividly my mother’s words when I was eleven living on the cattle ranch. A group of us boys and girls were going to play among the willow trees along a nearby creek. Mom said, “keep your pants zipped [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/11/14/living-in-process-viii-23-relating-sexually-god-experiences-both-sides/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/10/24/livings-in-process-viii-22-facilitating-people-gathering-in-groups/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/10/24/livings-in-process-viii-22-facilitating-people-gathering-in-groups/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:04:04 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=67 I am  passionate about groups! I have some of my most fulfilling moments in groups. I love to facilitate groups. I think that groups are a setting where persons can have memorable experiences. I have fun in groups. I feel vibrant, free and alive. I gain new insights in groups. I consider groups a gold [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/10/24/livings-in-process-viii-22-facilitating-people-gathering-in-groups/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/10/10/living-in-process-vii-21-writing-a-late-and-unexpected-venture/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/10/10/living-in-process-vii-21-writing-a-late-and-unexpected-venture/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:29:05 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=65 I never in my wildest dreams imagined myself a writer. This dream appeared late and unexpected. It could only have come as a result of a combination of other experiences, prominent among them were days in my counseling office, evenings teaching adults in the church, and hours studying process theology. I had learned well how [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/10/10/living-in-process-vii-21-writing-a-late-and-unexpected-venture/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/09/26/living-in-process-vii-20-teaching-doing-theology-in-the-church/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/09/26/living-in-process-vii-20-teaching-doing-theology-in-the-church/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:22:33 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=63 Teaching has been a lively adventure in which I have experienced my highest and lowest moments. I have felt frustration, agony, anger, despair, and excitement, delight, satisfaction, hope and peace. Gratefully, most feelings were high. This adventure seems ironic given that the earlier parts of me were scaredy cat, coward and saluting soldier. Thankfully, other [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/09/26/living-in-process-vii-20-teaching-doing-theology-in-the-church/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/09/12/living-in-process-vii-19-counseling-joining-the-others-committee/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/09/12/living-in-process-vii-19-counseling-joining-the-others-committee/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:17:23 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=61 I counseled for forty-two years, beginning in 1957, when I was appointed a half-time instructor in the MSU Student Counseling Center. During my career, I counseled in the university, church and community, the latter in Wenatchee for thirty years. I knew a few things before I met process theology. Early on, I was intrigued by [...]

]]> http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/09/12/living-in-process-vii-19-counseling-joining-the-others-committee/feed/ 0 http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/08/29/livings-in-process-vi-18-judgment-transformation-within-a-gracious-god/ http://currentsoffaith.com/2008/08/29/livings-in-process-vi-18-judgment-transformation-within-a-gracious-god/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:33:04 +0000 Robert Brizee http://currentsoffaith.com/?p=58 I have decided to take pity on my readers and use a different medium to discuss the important area of judgment: a power point presentation. But first, a personal introduction   Judgment is clearly a part of my religious tradition. I had to come to terms with it, even though the idea is not attractive to [...]

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