Confessions meme

via the Faith and Theology blog

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• I confess that I find justification the most boring theological topic. It reminds me of life insurance whereas I need help figuring out what to do with myself in the next few hours or days.
• I confess that I'm a horrible caretaker for my books. If you are my book, expect to be beaten, water or coffee stained, scribbled in, back broken, ripped, etc. For me, reading is consuming.
  

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• I once subscribed to Matthew Fox's magazine, Creation.
  
• I like Carey Landry's music and much more besides (I grew up singing Mozart and love him, but I don't hate Bernadette Farrell).
  
• One of the great turning points in my life was reading Women's Reality by Anne Wilson Schaef.
  
• On the new translations: dew is great, but consubstantial is not great English.
• I like Protestants more than Catholics (they're less smug even if not always less glib).
• I have experienced Christ through the persons of the Church, in my heart, and in the world -- but I still tend toward formalism and ideology in prayer and living my life.
• If I weren't Catholic, I'd be lost.
• If Protestants think the Catholic Church is overwhelming from the outside, it's even vaster from the inside.
• I love going to Church with sinners, the confused, and the struggling.
• Schillebeeckx made my eyes bleed.
• I tried to read Tillich and R. Niebuhr early in college and failed completely.
• I own Barth's Letter to the Romans and have never been able to read it.
• I believe Charles Peguy is more important than de Lubac, Balthasar, H/K. Rahner, Danielou, etc.
• I enjoy Spencer more than I enjoy Shakespeare.
  
• I wish I had read more literature and less theology.
• The Sacrament of Confession is always difficult to prepare for.

Feel free to suggest penances in the comment box...