Speakeasy Theology

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

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Here’s Sophia’s drawing! And a link to Hill’s poem: 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

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