The cry of the smart

"How the world works" alerted me to this story about an economic affairs reporter who inspite of his inside knowledge of the shennanigans on Wall Street just could not find his way out of involvement in not one but three crippling mortgages.

I know this is finger pointing but does'nt it look like a "proof story" for the thing I learnt from the scripture about how the intelligence of men is not a measure of how well they arrange their lives.

Orthodoxy to be vulnerable

I really like what Ben Myers says here about the vulnerability of orthodoxy to failure and the connection to its ability to grow by renouncing its capacity to give a final authoritative vision.

The problem with my liking this is -- do I like it because it resonates with my general way of thinking or because that is what we learn from the gospel? The gospel did call outcasts to repent and be a part of the Kingdom. This was something that the orthodoxy at the time could not comprehend. It was a scandal.  Just one amongst many shocking things that Jesus advocated. A brief extract from his extract.

“This rejection of the idolatrous notion of a ‘successful’ church, this willingness to fail, is at the same time a profoundly apocalyptic gesture: the church’s identity is not immanent within its own practices and institutions; its identity is that which exceeds it, that which comes to it as gift, that which fills its own emptiness and abasement. "