Curiouser and curiouser

HELLLLLOOOOOOOO familia.

This is Rachel typing from yet another random library table, overlooking the wonderful city of Seattle and it is an absolutely GORGEOUS 55*, blue skies and autumn is dripping on every leaf.

Today is a good day.

I went to "Gather" this morning which is the SPU version of church, led by the Theology department and a musical worship group of students. Connor met me (hrmmmmm....what is going on with that you wonder? I don't know. Too early to tell and really not enough time to try to figure out - but maybe that's a good thing.) and we went together and talked about how horrible it is to be getting up so early. He has rowing the same time I have pt in the morning, we feel each others pain ha.

I was really impressed with the service. One of the reasons I keep going to all these church events is because up in Seattle Christianity is an entirely different beast than it was back in Texas. In Texas I saw and experienced a lot of blind faith and hypocrisy when it came to scriptures, but up here at SPU and at Mars Hill it's a very intellectual pursuit of God, and a thorough examination of all the words, history, holes and practices of the scriptures. They really do break down and examine each word and line piece by piece in a way that I can understand and be intrigued by. Each day I feel more and more like Alice, falling down the rabbit hole and ending up in a world full of curiosities, the more look closer, the more complex and tantalizing everything becomes.

I think it's this way here in Seattle because it's such an intellectual and liberal city. It's full of people who question and want to redefine the limits, so you can't just "preach" the word of God and expect people to just go "ok, whatever you say pastor" like in Texas. Up here it's "Here's what God or Jesus says..." and everyone goes "Yeah, so? What does that mean? Where does it come from? What about this? Why should I believe that?" and then, unlike Texas where someone throws a Bible at you and says you're going to hell if you don't read it, it's more like "Well, this is why, because back in those times this is what the culture was like, this is why this word is used instead of that, Jesus was trying to make us understand this point but using this fable, this stems from this hebrew word ect ect"

I don't know. It's really interesting though. I started reading "Mere Christianity" by C.S Lewis last week and I've started to find myself in the middle of all these theological conversations. Who would have thunk it? Me.....interested in Christian theology....of all things...