It came to Pass

lam completing my J-Term class today. It has been a very insightful and great class albeit its marathon aspect with regard to the ethical demand of doing the readings and collaborative class participation. It has been a time of critically analyzing what others say about who a human being is.I come out of this class convinced that the Imago Dei doctrine or concept is here to stay. I am aware of the other variables that contribute to understanding a human being. The variables such as culture and biology have their place, but they do not tell the whole story of a who a human being is. The Imago Dei stands the test of space and time as it offers a sense of responsibility defined by relationality and sociality. These may be words, but experience shows that we all need the other which ever way we may view this. It should not, then, surprise us too much when the other's need is to exploit, suppress, distort, misappropriate the other. And yet, it is within the vocation of a theologian to articulate the way out, if any, I believe there is, of this brokenness, the sinful nature. However difficult this task might be, I believe that in the vocation of a theologian, lies the imperative to speak, to preach, to retrieve, prophecy, go public in theology. Wow, as our Academic Dean would say. And I say, wow and "the One who began this thing in us,the faith in us, would see to its completion. Let all who read this piece say wow? No, say, Amen.