Randall Nathan has been reading John Polkinghorne, the eminent British physicist/theologian. That has sparked some new thoughts about prayer.
Why is it that prayer sometimes seems to be talking to one's self? Could it be that there really is in each person what used to be called "a spark of divinity?" If so, then prayer to the divine Other goes through that element of the divine inside to get out to the Other, the ground of all being, sort of like how each person's cell phone connects to the general ether of communication.
Who knows? Randall does know this: God gave us theology so we could have fun with it and keep out of trouble. If it's not fun and it gets us into trouble, then something is probably wrong.
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