Days of Awe and Wonder: How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century

by Marcus J. Borg

Yehuda Amichai writes: From the place where we are right flowers will never grow in the spring. The place where we are right is hard and trampled like a yard, but doubts and loves dig up the world

like a mole, a plow.

Christian life is more like following a path than it is about believing things with our minds.

faith as radical trust in God, which can go along with great uncertainty about beliefs. The opposite of faith as trust is not doubt. The opposite of faith as trust is anxiety. You can measure the amount of faith as trust in your life by the amount of anxiety you have in your life.

This is faith as fidelity to a relationship, fidelity to the relationship with God, in other words faithfulness.

Faith is thus about setting out on a journey like Abraham’s in a posture of trust, seeking to be faithful to the relationship we are called into.

“What are you going to do with your one wild and precious life?”

systems were marked by an economics of exploitation and a politics of oppression and were legitimated most frequently with a religious ideology, legitimated in the name of God. Jesus was like them—a radical critic of the domination system

the three As—appearance, affluence, and achievement.

By systemic injustice I mean sources of suffering caused by cultural systems, by the structures of society. I

So be swift to love, and make haste to be kind.