Fearless Faith

Immutable, unchanging, incapable of being changed. It is what we were taught when asked to describe characteristics of God. Other attributes in some way flowed easier — omniscient, invisible, immortal, ever-lasting. The labels sounded important and deified. As a child, I understood God to be active in our every day lives, never shirking opportunities to love us. Why, then, did God often seem far away?

I theorized that the distance grew whenever we used clumsy sounding language, like “immutable,” without fully understanding its import. A god that never changes is problematic when it comes to fo...