In March, at the Friends in Conversation conference, Soo-Inn made a comment (during the Discipleship conversation) about our theology being a comedy show in heaven.

I think he was elaborating about how weak the church is, how we were all human and how everything we touch is stained somehow (especially our musings about God).

Theology as comedy in the eyes of God. That's interesting. Meaning all (or most of?) our efforts are a kind of joke to the heavenly audience. Like ants speculating about the strange being known as Man, getting it all (outrageously) wrong, muddled, confused.

In one sense no one could disagree that our efforts to understand God border on the hilarious. But, sigh, if only we truly believed it.

Because - let's face it - we do NOT think our theology is a joke.

• It is our theology which has created the schisms in the church.
• It is our theology which has burned heretics.
• It is our theology which often prevents from fully accepting one another.
• It is our theology which makes us arrogant and suspicious of other worldviews
• It is our theology which makes us scoff at proposals which don't fit our grid

God may find this funny (though I doubt it), but we certainly don't. We take ourselves very seriously.

But theology as divine comedy could mean that God laughs at and with us. Like how a dad smiles with delight at his son's attempts to explain how the stars (or even babies) came about. Because God accepts us (soul, body, mind, etc.) He wants us to be free to try to say what we think about Him.

It's a comedy of love. Worth experiencing over and over again.