Speakeasy Theology

Unscripted reflections on the texts for Sunday + a quick health update. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted (and relatively brief) reflections on the texts for Sunday. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted reflections on the texts for Sunday. Lent gracefully affords us time to deny ourselves through fasting and resisting evil thoughts, but it also teaches us to befriend the cross, urging us gently (or not-so-gently) to die into Jesus’ death. We need to die into Jesus’ death because it is only by sharing in his cross that we are saved from sharing the fate of the powerful. We all exist either in the belly of the fox or under the wings of the hen. We live according to the mind of Herod or according to the mind of Jesus. And the bottom line is this: the only way to avoid being devoured by the fox is to be brooded by the hen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

In this reflection, primarily in dialog with Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and Martin Buber, I consider what it means for us to pray Israel’s Psalms—the same prayers Jesus learned from his mother and taught to his disciples. We live on borrowed breath and borrowed prayers, after all, and only Israel’s prayers, prayed by the God of Israel, can save us from the spellbinders. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted reflections on the texts for this week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted reflections on this week’s texts. It’s one thing to shine with the goodness of God; it’s another to know we’re shining, to become aware that others need us or want us to shine. Perhaps our deepest temptations happen right in those moments. Knowing how others see us, we can so easily lose our way, turning off the path God has laid out for us. Only the Spirit can lead us along the edge between despair and presumption, an edge all of us have to walk, sooner and later. And it is a way that leads always into the valley of the shadow of death and through it—never around it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted reflections on this week’s texts, exploring what it does and doesn’t mean to love your enemies and to be angry with God. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Unscripted, unthematic reflections the readings for Sunday. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday.If we take seriously Augustine’s reading of this week’s Psalm, Origen’s and Maximus’ reading of this week’s Gospel, and Bonhoeffer’s reading of this week’s Epistle, we learn what otherwise might be lost on us: that we’re called to a “sober intoxication of the Spirit,” a sobriety which is indistinguishable from giddy, stammering delight in God’s brilliance, and that it is only as we are so delighted, in spite of whatever life throws at us, that we can begin to be for others what they need from God, flowing in the generosity of the Spirit for the sake of the community’s good. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cewgreen.substack.com/subscribe