welcome

welcome to all who are visiting this "blog" for the first time. i've never done one of these before, so when it asked me to come up with a "title name" for the blog, i was confused at first. after i figured out what it was talking about, i was confounded as to what to name my blog. it just so happens that i was reading an article by Miroslav Volf, and the idea came from there. instead of trying to explain what he said, i thought i'd give you an excerpt that will explain why i named the blog "embrace".

The title of the article is "From Exclusion to Embrace: Reflections on Reconciliation":

"The will to embrace another person is unconditional. The starting point must be the primacy of the will to embrace. Since the God of Christian belief is the God of unconditional love and the God who died for the ungodly, the will to embrace the other, even the evil other, is a fundamental Christian obligation. The will to give ourselves to others and “welcome” them, the will to readjust our identities to make space for them, is prior to any judgment about others, except that of identifying them in their humanity. The will to embrace precedes any “truth” about others and any construction of their “justice.” This will is absolutely indiscriminate and strictly immutable; it transcends the moral mapping of the social world into “good’ and “evil.”

so there it is...

again, thanks for visiting...and feel free to comment on anything i write. i thoroughly enjoy discussion on any topic.

ryan boettcher