Creating a statement of faith…. I think this is a good idea, not for the typical reasons a statement of faith is used, that is to exclude people from some form of closed group; a church, a picnic, a basketball team… maybe not the basketball team but they are generally used to decide who is in and who is out of a group like a church or a circle of friends, hence the picnic.

That type of exclusion, I’m not interested in, but given my last (long) post about dynamic balance and the inherent need to shift with culture if we intend to remain in the center of our faith I suppose it is important to articulate the center, at least where we imagine it to be today.

And so the exercise I propose is an endeavor to create a snapshot of my faith; today; or at least over the course of the next couple days/weeks/months. Into that I’m enlisting you, that is, anyone that stumbles across this blog. Help me articulate what is at the core; the essential, uncompromised, unyielding experience of truth we find ourselves living in.

I’ll be adding my thoughts over the next (insert open ended period of time here) knowing that, “reality is the dynamic medium in which human knowing does its work” and my work continues to be one, most decidedly, in progress.

quote from Paul Spalding
Proclaiming Christian Truth in a Postmodern Culture