Beginnings Are Always So Hopeful... followed by a series of questions that demand discussionnotanswers

In Judaism, the places for higher theological learning 

are called yeshivas. From yoshev, the Hebrew word 

meaning to sit. 

Because it's important that  you sit still.

I have now been to one sitting for each of my classes and I am so incredibly excited about what I'm doing. The material is intriguing and new and one of my classes offers me the opportunity to simply sit and think about the ways in which I think about God. It also offers/demands that I read 1300 pages of material but I'm ok with that tonight. 

It took until right now to realize how incredibly fortunate I am to have this time. Three years separated from school, working and occasionally making money has taught me one very important thing. 

I really like school.

I couldn't help but smile while the laptops

clacked and the guy up front

told us 

all about the time the Lutherans and the Methodists got together

and the Methodists felt outgunned 

or about

the guy who used to debate Einstein but will always be remembered for his Theology.

Do you think that people are more willing to accept mystery 

within God now as opposed to 

50 years ago

 because

50 years ago

they still thought that we could

 use science to explain this whole world around us and 

God along with it?

If science explained it all,

down past the quarks and neutrinos,

hung a left past those vibrating strings,

and found whole other multiverses

would you still need God?

Is He just there to explain what you don't understand?

Or does He inform something more?

Would you trade enlightenment

for

a little bit of mystery?

So many questions and I haven't even written a paper yet.