Happy New Year, Treehouse people! I thought it was time to give an update on our Treehouse project.
Any theology that is not in conversation with the current cultural moment is not worth the ink that’s spilled to record it. Our current cultural moment has caused me to hit pause and think deeply about what it means to say “I believe…” As I wrote some weeks ago, “ We now find ourselves in a time of ultimate seriousness with regard to what the Christian faith might mean in our country and in our lives. With the drumbeat of Christian Nationalism growing louder by the day (it’s pure, cynical golden-calf idolatry, I said what I said), I feel pressed to discern what is utterly essential.”