It’s great coming in having these discussions and never quite knowing where they’re going to go. On Sunday we chewed on the difficulties of accepting grace and tried to process the larger thread through Bell’s book in terms of an active spirituality vs. passive spirituality. Is “saving” being done to us, or are we taking a role, even as “our choice becomes this: we can trust his retelling of the story, or we can trust our telling of the story.” (146). How much responsibility are we willing to take? That turned to discussion of Catholicism and its hierarchy which–to those present who grew up in it–seemed to discourage an active, questioning faith. In thinking about why Catholicism is still popular, also brought up the thinking of Liberation Theology.

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