Kaufman Pisses Me Off

Kaufman is the Mennonite theologian that I have been studying.

"...true faith in God is not living with a conviction that our heavenly father is taking care of us. It is, rather, acknowledging and accepting the ultimate mystery of things and, precisely in the face of that mystery, going out like Abraham, (Hebrews 11:8), not knowing where we are going, but nevertheless moving forward creatively and with confidence--in the serendipitous creativity that has brought our trajectory and us into being, has continued to sustain the human project within the web of life that surrounds us and nurtures us, and has given us a measure of hope for that project here on planet Earth. Since we now see that we are to love and give ourselves and our lives not only to our human neighbors and enemies, but also to the wider orders of life in which we find ourselves, this perspective deepens and widens the radicality of the Christian ethic, and thus the radicality of Christian faith."