Speakeasy Theology

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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Raw, unscripted reflections on the texts for this coming Sunday.God is faithful, no doubt. But—as you surely already know—he takes his own sweet time in proving it. Advent, therefore, is a season of learning to rejoice in the time God takes to be faithful, a season of gladdening to the fact that God’s goodness toward us is always as much about our past as it is about our present or our future, and always as much for the sake of our fathers as it is for us and the sake of our sons. 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.Advent is a season of waiting, a season of waiting on God. But of course God is already here, already acting—continuing to do what he’s always already done. This is the mystery at the heart of our faith: it is precisely because Christ’s work is “finished” in his death that it can and must take place at the right place and at the right time in our lives. So, Advent is not a season of waiting for God to begin to act or to be a better God. We’re not waiting for God to do what he’s up until now failed to do. Advent is a season of waiting for God and with God, a season of waiting on God in ways that open us more and more completely to the fullness of God, a time to learn to wait as God waits. And we learn that way of waiting by praying as Jesus taught us to pray, seeking in those prayers the changes that become possible only because of the unchanging goodness of 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