{"id":289,"date":"2005-08-26T18:39:46","date_gmt":"2005-08-27T01:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=289"},"modified":"2012-08-18T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T02:58:36","slug":"friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ferry Beach Conference Center, Saco, Maine<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m spending a couple of days at Ferry Beach Conference Center. I was supposed to attend a small church conference, but it was canceled at the last minute. I decided to come up here anyway and spend a couple of days doing a sort of study-retreat.<\/p>\n

I left Concord at about 4 p.m., after having lunch and a long talk with a good friend. Traffic was heavy and slow on Interstate 495 headed north, and I didn’t arrive at Ferry Beach until 6:30 p.m. First stop was Huot’s, a seafood restaurant in the village of Camp Ellis. At their takeout window, I got fried clams, French fries, and cole slaw, and started the ten-minute walk back to the conference center. But I couldn’t wait to start in on the clams, and began eating them out of the bag as I walked.<\/p>\n

“Is there going to be any left the time you get home?” said a man sitting on the wide front porch of one of the summer rentals. He had a good-natured grin on his face.<\/p>\n

“No, I don’t think so,” I said. He just laughed.<\/p>\n

Today, I’ve been working my way through Faith without Certainty: Liberal Theology for the 21st Century<\/em> by Paul Rasor. I skimmed some of it back in June when I bought it, but now I’m sitting down and reading it straight through. I sat at the picnic table at my campsite on this perfect summer day, the sun glinting down through the trees, a chipmunk running back and forth between some trees, a few late summer birds calling idly every now and again.<\/p>\n

And Paul writes clear prose that’s almost entirely free of the obfuscatory, precious academic jargon that’s endemic in theological circles. I have been particularly enjoying the way Paul clarifies the postmodern challenges to liberal theology.<\/p>\n

It’s too bad the small church conference was canceled, but I have to say this is the perfect setting to catch up on my theology reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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