It is all too easy to forget that what is presupposition for me can be something totally foreign and nonsensical to someone else.  Just this past week a student almost incredulously asked me about waiting for Jesus to return, which is so much a given in some circles that to question it revealed a certain amount of cognitive dissonance.  The question was a good reminder for me to be careful of what I take for granted.

I really like the way Francis Spufford articulates some of those necessary “impossibilities” of the Christian faith.  Here he talks with the Centre for Public Christianity about “the unexpected Jesus.”

If you haven’t done so, you really should give Spufford’s Unapologetic a try.