Theology of Everyday Life

The NIV shrewdly renders "unjust" or "corrupt" as "shrewd" when it speaks of the manager. According to that translation, his response is clever or innovative from a business viewpoint.

Hmm. I don't think so. The Message, at least, has the honesty to call him a "crooked" manager. Much closer, this.

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So what is it about the Ordinary that is the context for understanding God's coming rule? Why does Jesus persistently choose not to find God's ways inside religious contexts, instead finding them in the Ordinary?

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The context of the kingdom is everyday life. You can tell this from the parables, though we seldom pay attention to them this way.

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Of course the basic problem we all have with everyday life is that there is so much of it. My experiment in blogging is a prime example.

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An article about Rathergate in Friday's Wall Street Journal pointed out that the sea-change happening in journalism today is disturbing the traditional media's monopoly of news _context_ as well as content.

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