Hello,
I am an ordained pastor in Fort St. John, British Columbia. My particular interests are the hermeneutics (interpretation) of scripture and the way in which teaching forms a person. I was encouraged by a good friend to start up a blog and I jumped at the opportunity to explore in writing some of my reflections on hermeneutics and education. The blog is not limited to those subjects, but those two disciplines tend to be the place where my thinking coalesces.
Why Respondeo?
The name of this blog comes from the Philosopher Eugen Rosenstock Huessy, who argued that instead of building on the static “Cogito ergo sum,” “I think, therefore I am,” one should begin with “Respondeo etsi Mutabor,” “I respond, although I shall be changed.”
We learn by responding. As Christians, we respond in faith to the word of God and that word forms us. At the same time, we respond negatively or positively to certain ideas and philosophies and that forms us as well. The simple response of a child and the reflective response of an adult are both part of that lifelong response to the world God has set us in and the word that he has spoken to us. All humans, for that matter, live in response; to the culture, to the family, to the place that they have been given.