About In Our Maker’s Image

For as long as I can remember I have longed to know God more fully and to put that understanding into practice in my life. As I studied, read, prayed, conversed, learned, and lived with the matter more thoroughly a question began to haunt me. Have I truly considered what it means to be created in the image of God?

To realize our identities as bearers of our Maker’s image, we cannot escape the truth that each of us has the opportunity to uniquely reflect the image of our Maker. Each of us has a unique calling to claim our identity as children of the Living God and as collaborators with the Great Creator. Understanding this has significant implications in how we live.

What does it mean to be created in the image of God? I think there are many answers to that question. To find my answer to it, I have become a student of life. People, nature, science, arts, religion, etc. are all doorways through which we can enter more deeply into knowledge of ourselves and God.

In 2005, I had the opportunity to take a course on theology from the Community of Christ Seminary. The course was taught by the seminary dean and brilliant theologian, Don Compier. The class explored theology through the lenses of the aspects of the Trinity, God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The model of the Triune God that we began to discover in that class captivated me. In order to complete the course I had to write three papers, with each paper focusing on a different aspect of the Trinity. Those papers were like seeds in my mind and heart, and I spent the next 2 to 3 years, in the midst of graduate school, work, relationship building, and other life stuff, harvesting the fruit that germinated from those seeds in the form of a book, In Our Maker’s Image. To learn more about the book, click here. To check out the book, click here. It’s a hybrid between spiritual formation in a religious sense and practical daily living with an emphasis on discovering your potential and living your best self more fully each day.

This blog is a continuation of that journey. It is my sincere hope that this blog space will serve as grist for the mill as you are strengthened and sustained, and that you might have the courage to risk discovering your own unique answers to the question of what it means for you that you are created in the image of God.

Although the seed for In Our Maker’s Image was planted in a seminary class, this blog is not meant to be overly theological in an academic or religious sense. As my chemistry professor once wrote on a birthday card: “Think outside the bowl, box, textbook, lecture, sermon…”