Outside Reading 2--Matt Brennan

“Men who, for their sense of well being, depend on facing tasks they can handle are not usually effective in their close relationships.”
This quote from The Silence of Adam is referring to what they call “recipe theology.” Basically this means that men all too often try to approach their problems by figuring out what is wrong and immediately go to fix it. While this approach can be good for certain applications, it will not fix the source of our problems which occur in our close relationships, whether it be with friends, family, spouse, or God. Men cannot embrace the fact that we cannot control certain things and that more times than not, we must be still and listen for God in the darkness that occurs in our lives instead of using our other senses to overpower and deafen our ears, preventing us from hearing the truth. It goes on to say, “Recipe theology studies the bits and pieces of life in order to help us tell our story better. God invites us to join him in telling his…Recipe theology…treats confusion as something to be solved rather than entered.”