I’ll post another entry in the next day or two, but I didn’t want to let another day go by without pointing out these two posts by Bob Cornwall. Yesterday was the 65th anniversary of the execution of Dietrich Bonhoffer at Flossenburg concentration camp. I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Bonhoffer since I first picked up “Letters and Papers from Prison”. The second post was about a resurgence in Christian terrorism (yes, the “fundamentalist” fringe of any religion is a danger). Bob covers it better than I, so go read them.
Category: Bob Cornwall
A Universalist, huh?
I’ve mentioned here before that I regularly read Rev. Bob Cornwall’s blog. He posted something there last week (a week ago today to be exact) that I wanted to comment on, but I didn’t get to it this week. He’s prolific enough that this one has already fallen off his front page. I wish I had the time (and enough interesting things to say) to write that much. Oh, well. The entry was mostly an excerpt from a book by William Barclay. Barclay was a much better biblical scholar than I will ever be, but he describes himself as a Universalist and goes on to explain why. What is really interesting to me, is that, while he can back it up biblically better than I ever could, he describes almost exactly the place I reached during one of my undergraduate religion classes when we were discussing process theology. I didn’t even realize I was a Universalist. Anyway, go read it. I’m going to have to see if the local library has a copy of that book now. As a result of this and a couple of other things I’ve been looking into lately, I’ve also added a couple of new books to my Amazon Religion Wish-List (to the left).