Life, faith, God, humanity, and our place in it all can have what feel like endless questions. Some of them have been answered well in our time and others not so much. It is my aim to engage with some of these difficult conversations with a refreshing perspective.
My name is Alex Pezzutto, but you may have know that already. Coming from a diverse background of faith, Catholicism, the Salvation Army, the Dutch Reformed, non-denominational evangelical, Pentecostal, Anglican, conservative, and progressive, I’ve come to recognize that their is usually value and validity on both sides of an argument. If there weren’t, how could people honestly believe each side?
Much of living a faithful life is balancing the tensions of Scripture. We’ll be aiming to do this faithfully following a consistent interpretive framework that is in humble conversation with other perspectives and does not assume itself to be right.
At times, you may just want to stop reading and think this is rubbish, I get it. Holding things in tension can make us uncomfortable. Yet we need to be honest and wrestle with tough truths. Jesus’ liked pushing our limits, didn’t he? Being able to humbly say, “what if I’m wrong” if the first step to reconsidering our own flaws, the flaws of our present church culture, and the deeper waters of faith that Jesus is calling us into today. So I hope you’re up for being challenged, because I only write about that hard stuff. Comments are welcome- let’s challenge each other!
”Everyone is my superior in some way, in that way I learn from them.” - Dale Carnegie
I also have an older blog that still has some great thoughts on the above, here.