The Poet of the World at Work


Comments by Bruce Epperly. Key quote: What does it mean to have the power to become a child of God? How is this power reflected? How do we embrace this power for ourselves and our congregations? Surely when we open to divine possibility, new energies emerge in our lives; we become more creative and hospitable;…
Dr. Bruce Epperly, author of the book Finding God in Suffering: A Journey with Job, will be providing some comments to help you preach and teach the passages from this important book during the month of October. Here is his first video. Learn More
Jay McDaniel posts ten reasons poetry is superior to philosophy and theology. Of course we need philosophy, too. And theology as well. But wouldn’t it be nice if, sometimes, philosophers and theologians alike thought more poetically? Open Horizons Check out the rest of his post. It’s fascinating!
In Bruce G. Epperly’s The God of the Growing Edge: Whitehead and Thurman on Theology, Spirituality, and Social Change, readers are invited into a unique dialogue between Alfred North Whitehead’s robust intellectual framework and Howard Thurman’s prophetic urgency and practical wisdom. For those engaged in process theology, this book offers not just a theoretical synthesis…
Jay McDaniel presents a process-relational approach to dealing with opponents, specifically a way for liberals/progressives to constructively engage Christian nationalists in his post When Your Neighbor’s a Christian Nationalist: A Process-Relational Approach. I think there are some valuable points in this article, and that his ideas about engagement are valid in many other controversies as…