Easter Sunday I was a little bit more hyper than I am on a typical Sunday morning.  I'm not sure why, but I was really excited to celebrate the resurrection this year (mostly it's because I did more deliberate preparations than I do normally - but that's another topic).  Now, for some reason (mostly because I joke about it) people seem to think that when I get bouncy during (or before) worship I've had too much caffiene.

That's not really the case.  Actually, the more hyper I am before and during worship the more my nervous energy is working it's way out.  My sub-concious mind goes into over-drive as I wonder about sermon points, prayer requests, how to greet people, if the slides are goign to be OK, who is doing what, and when the Choir is going to show up (or "if they are going to show up," there's a running joke that the Choir is going to sneak out for breakfast one week - I think I'd have to shake their hands if they ever did it).  Anyway, I'm like a blithering-idiot before worship (and often during).

The Conversation Space

During the morning session in day 2 I finally found out how to make room for the Incarnation in Caputo's philosophy of religion.  In true PoMo form Caputo opens up this path by relying on someone else to open up that possibility (namely, Kearney).  Caputo begins from the stance of the "impossible," and Kearney begins from the "possible" - when they meet in the middle the avenue of "the possibility of the impossible" opens up.

The Incarnation (yes, Caputo would shudder at my use of caps - but I'm part of the Christian faith community and the Incarnation is the event of our faith) is certainly the impossible becoming possible - God in the flesh is an insanity that  Christians have wrestled with for centuries.  As such, I do appreciate how Caputo eventually put this in the morning session.  Of course, he immediately deconstructed it by pointing out that the messianic hope is something which is always in the future.  I should have known it wouldn't have been that neat!