The "T" word

I've been adding a few links to bibleicio.us lately and I have been tagging them with the T word.

everything I do so I cringe slightly. First of all, It's such an inclusive word that it's almost not useful for tagging.

Secondly, is the baggage - so many people automatically assume that by using the word "Theology" you are talking about something esoteric, non-practical, and divorced from everyday reality. Since my whole hope is for a community that teaches each other to engage the scriptures deeply and practically that's not the type of perception that I want to promote.

But all I'm really trying to say by tagging something theology is it is a thoughtful discussion about beliefs concerning God. We all believe something, even if we don't think about it our actions demonstrate what we actually believe, practiced theology is identifying and comparing these beliefs with the ideas coming from scripture and scholars of scripture, finding the differences and deciding what to do with them.

Jason Clark has a good post that explains better than I could about why we should bother with the "T" word.