Theological Musings
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I Often Doubt My Faith
I often doubt the things I am supposed to believe. And, when I doubt, I come up with creative solutions to solve my doubt which allow me to continue to believe, mostly what I am supposed to believe. I just want to be honest about this with myself and with others. * * * Previous Continue reading
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Why I Deleted Facebook and Twitter
A week and a half ago I permanently deleted both my Facebook and my Twitter, and it is clearly one of the best decisions that I have made. * * * A couple of weekends ago I went on a retreat with the camp staff for ACU’s summer Leadership Camps as I will be working Continue reading
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Life Group
There is a circle of people, all spokes of a wheel stretching out—forever—into the world of creation. Each person’s story, unique, but they have an oddly familiar refrain and I recognize some of the characters because they weave in and out of my life. The people here, the colors of the rainbow—black, white, hispanic, asian—held Continue reading
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Meat Sacrificed to Idols: “Your Body is a Wonderland”
Are you a moralist? If so, you are likely the sort of person who bleeps cuss words, or skips sex scenes in movies. You don’t drink alcohol or smoke. You don’t buy R rated movies. This misses the point. Aside from its inconsistency (you probably are ok with violence, greed, and divorce in movies), it Continue reading
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Are You Coming?
It was an interesting medley yesterday morning. Eli Young Band. Eminem. Dashboard. and they all had something unique to say. And I began to think. as the pines of Georgia began to fade and the palms of coastal Florida began to appear as we left those “good ol’ boys” who make peanut butter for starving Continue reading
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Who is behind the Veil?
After a two-week hiatus in which I read The Prodigal God by Tim Keller and Jesus Wants to Save Christians by Rob Bell, I returned, this morning, to Peter Rollins’ book: Insurrection. I finished it. I have already done one blog post centered on Rollins, so I don’t really want to do another one. If Continue reading
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We are all a Bunch of Liars
“The split between what we say and what we do is a direct expression of irony. Something we see at, say, a ‘70s party, where people dress up in the most flamboyant of clothes and dance to the most idiosyncratic music of the era while simultaneously ridiculing it. Here people laugh at the music they Continue reading
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Honor the Sabbath, and Keep it Holy
Today at church, Keith preached on the importance of the Sabbath. He said a lot of really cool and valuable things which I won’t go into much detail about here, but he did say something that struck me at my core. He said that Sabbath was not about making yourself worship God for an extended Continue reading
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How Do You Believe
Amanda and I left Abilene Friday afternoon and headed to Austin. We are staying with my grandparents in Liberty Hill until Wednesday. The picture to the left is from my grandparents’ property. The official reason for the visit is because I am visiting UT’s graduate school on Monday as I consider their graduate program in Continue reading
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Love Matters More Than Correct Theology: A Confession
Love matters more than proper theology. That’s a really hard concept for me to understand, but it is true. Love matters more than proper theology. It matters even more than a proper theology of love. Paul said in First Corinthians 13 that love matters more than speaking in tongues, more than knowing EVERYTHING, and more Continue reading
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Praying for Justice: Reflections on Troy Davis and the Prophets
You’re probably sick of hearing about Troy Davis. I am. If you are sick of hearing about it, then there is something wrong with your heart. I know there is something wrong with mine. Somehow I have contracted “justice fatigue.” I’m tired of hearing about injustice. Nevertheless, it is imperative that we continue to fight Continue reading
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Right Belief Matters
The following is an excerpt from a paper I wrote for my Story of Christian Spirituality class. I figured I would share this portion because it informs the way I engage my Faith: Raised in the churches of Christ, I definitely participated in LTC and Bible Bowl. That taught me to value proof-texting and taking Continue reading
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Stop Using Murderous Language: Speak Poetically
Why does one of the simplest spoken phrases—“I love you”—mean so much to us? Why are we angered or hurt when someone says “I hate you”? The answer is because words matter. Words embody meaning. While written language, in the grand scope of human evolution, is a relatively recent invention, spoken language is, perhaps, the Continue reading
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Christian Imagination: living “thy Kingdom come”
We, my Jesus community and I, have been doing two things the past three weeks or so that have already begun to change the way I view faith. First, we (whoever decides to get up and come, we are militantly non-militant about people coming) are meeting every morning (including Saturday and Sunday) at six to Continue reading
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Five Thoughts for New Students
I have now been in Abilene for close to two weeks. These weeks have been filled with friends, moving in, setting up, food, and prayer. I am unbelievably excited for my final year as an undergraduate student. This week I have been working with a group of freshmen honors students during what ACU calls “Welcome Continue reading
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Here is a plate of spaghetti and a glass of wine. Welcome home.
This past week has been a whirlwind. I arrived in Abilene on Saturday and have spent every day since catching up with my friends and eating. We have done lots of eating and have had two parties this week. Saturday night Annie and I cooked for about fifteen people, and the house was filled with Continue reading
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Why I Hold the Politics I Do
I normally blog about religious matters, and those religious matters are not really theology as such, but are related to my personal walk of faith, the spiritual life, or the life of my community. I also make use of social media a good deal in order to read what other people write and also to Continue reading
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A Common Liturgy, a Common Purse, and a Common Rule
I leave Sugar Land tomorrow morning. I probably won’t be back until Christmas. I’m headed to Monahans (a tiny town in the middle of West Texas) to visit my grandparents and then I am heading to Abilene. I have spent this summer working for the church I grew up in, dwelling in rich suburban Sugar Continue reading
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Learn to Live in the Necessary Vulnerabilities
I love my friends. I do not love them in the sense that a fourteen year-old girl means when she splashes the phrase “I love my friends” across her Facebook page. I love my friends with a far greater depth than that. My friends, really my brothers and sisters in Christ, represent Jesus on a Continue reading
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Hyper-realism, Semiotics, and Sacramental Theology
My blog is not a place where I typically engage academic questions. I do plenty of academic writing for my classes and, currently, my senior capstone, so I do not plan to start now. But, since academic conversations often inform practice, sometimes those conversations need to be addressed. I want to talk about the relationships Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 