[October 2001 journal entry]
In a conversation with the late-30s pastor for a group of families aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (the remnant that resolutely resisted the fundamentalist reversal engineered within the Southern Baptist denomination in the 1980s) attempting to launch a new ‘low key’ congregation, I introduced the idea that ‘God’ language seems inevitably to fall back to literal/idolatrous use after every pause to say ‘God’ language is anthropomorphic. The young pastor asked for an alternative. I suggested beginning with and concentrating on human geist experience. Doing so inductively opens awareness of a transcending geist without necessitating a specific/definitive ‘God’ language.
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