INTERVIEW WITH DR. MEGHAN LARISSA GOOD

Discussion Questions

  1. Meghan makes the comment that in the Anabaptist tradition, we don’t talk about the Holy Spirit. Would you say that is true in your experience?  

  2. Is your picture of God before creation similar to Meghan’s picture—of God alone in a sea of dark? Is the picture of God as a party already in session—God dancing—God delighting and being delighted in—require a mental shift for you? How does that change your sense of who God is?

  3. Is seeing God in this way an antidote to disillusionment with church communities as Meghan suggests?

  4. Why does the idea of a trinitarian community rather than the “modern romantic ideal in the west of two people completing each other” matter to the church?  

  5. Meghan comments that “we often find out who we are the best in relationship with what is other than us.” Does this idea address the modern search for identity in a helpful way? Or does it not really apply to that concern directly?