Scottish Life and the Trinity

Today my friend Allison was the 'preacher.' I met up with her today down by the pier and she was reflecting on the Scottish way of life and how people in our little town spend all day on Saturdays with their families on the East Sands, many of them with thier dogs playing fetch. The pace of life in St. Andrews is a lot slower than what many of us are used to and Allison seemed to be particularly conscious of the pace today. One comment that she made was that she seemed to think that relationships are a lot more important here than back home in the U.S. We both wondered how we could retain the way of life here once we move back to the States. She thought she'd try to live near a park. I had no answer.

I started to think more about why it is that relationships seem to be so important to humanity. It seems to me that Christianity has a particular answer to this question. The answer seems to be that we as human beings somehow reflect the triune nature of God. The technical phrase for this is that we are created in the imago dei, the image of God. One reason that relationships seem to be so vital to who we are as people is because God's very nature is relational. God is being-in-relation. By being made in God's image we are relational beings, hence the importance of our relationships. The way of life in St. Andrews makes it a lot easier to reflect this image.

To post or not to post...

So I've been slow to start a blog and now that my wife seems to have the fever I thougth I might as well give up trying to prevent myself from getting the virus! Actually, I started another blog (acrucesalus.wordpress.com) but was never motivated to write on it (maybe because it didn't have the cool blogger logo!) or it might just be my own laziness. Whatever the reason that particular blog never got off the ground. This blog hopefully will be different. 'What the preacher said' is a topic that came to me one Sunday afternoon a few months ago. I hope that it will be a place where questions can be raised by myself and others about what they heard from the 'preacher.' Of course, the term 'preacher' is meant to be understood as general as possible and will hopefully encompass any theological questions that come up in the course of my day.... Now we wait and see what happens....

Hope to talk to you all soon!