For what it's worth, the choices I make are not always an indictment of your choices. Not always.
In this 15-minute TED talk, Kristina Gjerde expounds upon the legal and logistical implications of creating an internationally shared commons out of the 64% of the world’s oceans that lay outside any government’s jurisdiction.
Pulling insights from her background as a lawyer, from social scientists and economists, Gjerde proposes 3 things that must exist for any shared commons:
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“Does Christianity buttress a way of life that everyone is seeking, or is it an alternative
way of life that orders the rest of life, and benefit others?”
Might we someday all meet around the Eucharist? And might this Eucharist be led for us by an Orthodox bishop?
(This is the continuation of the post “I Started Out Baptist…” which, together with this post, contain some reflections on the first two parts of Kärkkäinen’s Introduction to Ecclesiology. Please read the other post first and then come back here!)
My journey away from the faith was, in retrospect, largely due to an overwhelming feeling that I just could never measure up. I never doubted the efficacy of my salvation. There is a “once saved always saved” doctrine of assurance within the Baptist tradition that gave me confidence that nothing I could do would ever nullify my eternal resting place. However, I continued to sin despite my best efforts to the contrary. This was disobedience in the highest and called into question the depth of my love and gratitude for the savior who’d died for me. We called such bouts “backsliding” and they were usually combated by redoubling one’s efforts to be “in the word” and withdraw from “the world.” Continue Reading…
