One of the greatest obstacles to your growing is the fear of making a fool of yourself. Any real step forward implies the risk of failure. And the really important steps imply the risk of complete failure. Yet we must make them, trusting in Christ. If I take this step, everything I have done so far might go down the drain. In a situation like that we need a shot of Buddhist mentality. Then we see, down what drain? So what? . . . We have to have the courage to make fools of ourselves, and at the same time be awfully careful not to make fools of ourselves.

Thomas Merton quoted in Merton's Palace of Nowhere by James Finley

Hello Dr. Anders,

I just finished reading your sermon entitled "Faith and Ambiguity" it blessed my spirit. I am a new Disciples Pastor with roots in another stream of the Stone-Campbell tradition, Churches of Christ. I gladly admit that I've found my spiritual home among the Disciples of Christ. I'm a recent graduate of Brite Dinvity School and planted a new church (for former sex-workers and their families as well as other marginalized persons)last year in Dallas, Texas. As I was just about to finish up my sermon for tomorrow I decided to do a little web surfing and see other sermons on the same lectionary text. I found yours. Thank you for putting words to ideas I've long held in my heart about "objective" and "subjective" truth.

Blessings,