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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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A Lot Can Happen in a Year: Mine and Amanda’s Story
Most of my blog posts start out apologetically. It is usually something like, “I haven’t written in a while” or “I’ve been very busy lately” or “I’m sorry, but this post is going to be more complicated/longer than you probably want it to be.” So, this time, you aren’t going to get that. Instead, oh… Continue reading
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An Apology
In my effort to live my life as crucified to the world in emulation of Jesus, the following things come to mind: First, I want to apologize to anyone who has been hurt or confused or upset by something I have said on Twitter or posted on Facebook. It has never been my intent to… 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
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Love Creatively, Work Imaginatively, Labor Joyfully, and Rebuke Graciously.
My friend Morgan, whose blog you can read here, recently wrote a post about what she has learned this summer. Her post has stuck with me over the past few days, and so I decided to do something similar. For some of you, the summer isn’t terribly different from the rest of the year. But,… Continue reading
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3rd Grade Boys, Discontent, and the Jesus Creed
When rolled out next to the wish-dreams we have for the future, our present realities pale in comparison. This is not due to the superiority of future experience, though many of us assume that tomorrow will be better than today. It is due to the superiority of imagined experience over real experience. The present is… Continue reading
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My Grandmother and I Took Communion Together
My brother and grandparents were in town this past weekend to celebrate Independence Day with my parents, my sister, and me. Needless to say, the house was crowded. It was a fun weekend spent playing cards, eating food, and having good conversation. On Sunday my family all went to church together (minus my brother who… Continue reading
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Life Together: Christian Community is Hard
Last weekend I went to Abilene to spend time with my friends. Last Sunday we left early in the morning and headed to DFW so that we could go with a friend to the church she was working for. After that we had lunch and then went to watch the Rangers play the Mets. Because… Continue reading
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Meat Sacrificed to Idols: Magic vs Faith in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Today is Father’s Day. My sister and I are living in Sugar Land this summer while we both work for First Colony Church of Christ, so we were both able to actually spend Father’s Day with Dad. Our plan was to go eat at The Swinging Door for lunch (an awesome BBQ place in Richmond)… Continue reading
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Why Women Should Be Able To Pass The Plate
This is intended to be an article that organizes my thoughts on why any church, no matter its position on women in leadership, should encourage men and women, equally, to serve in the public roles during corporate worship Before I get too involved in the discussion of the role of women in the church, I… Continue reading
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Love God. Love Others: How I Got Here.
To inaugurate my new mission of blogging at least once a week I want to share a little bit about myself. I grew up in a conservative—both theological and political—household. I grew up going to a place called First Colony Church of Christ. If you know anything about the Churches of Christ, then you know… Continue reading
About Me
Gregory C. Jeffers
Anglican Christian | Husband | Father | Teacher | Scholar | Poet
G. C. Jeffers 