My Daily Walk – What Is Theology?

My Daily Walk is a podcast with a Hollywood producer who records a podcast when he goes for a walk. What Is Theology? I think it’s fair to say a large percentage of the people listening to this believe in God, or claim to believe in God, and live as though there is one. And maybe some people listening to this don’t believe in God yet live as though there is one.

I don’t believe in God, but I live as though I do. Those are the actual first words of a friend of mine the first time we sat down for coffee. I had met him at a pub. We kind of hit it off and decided let’s go have coffee. And I don’t know why he said… started with that, but he did. And that’ll be today’s topic. Good morning and welcome to My Daily Walk. The podcast where this anonymous Hollywood guy walks around and talks. He walks and talks, and talks and walks, walks the walk, and talks the talk. That’s the attempt.

This is day three, and I’m trying something different today. I’m trying a different time of day. What’s been happening is, walking where I walk, I am surrounded by many, many distractions. And it’s just a neighborhood, but at a time of day that I have been walking, there’s just too many distractions, noisy distractions, so I picked a different time of day, and we’ll see how today goes. It’s 5:40 in the morning, and we’ll see how fresh my mind is. Let’s see if I can stay on topic and have fewer tangents, less distracted, less frenetic. Who knows? But we’re going to take a stab at that.

The format of this podcast is hopefully something that peaks your interest right up-front. A topical question, phrase, statement, or part of a story, which we’ll get back to before the end of this 30 minutes, but I want to review the previous day’s subject. Perhaps finish a thought I didn’t finish and then launch into the new topic. I have no idea if this will be interesting at all to anyone. It’s half experiment, half personal journal, and half… Wait, that’s three halves. You can’t have three halves. Break it into thirds. That third part would be a monologue to my mom. If no one else listens to this, I guarantee my mom will. So hi mom.

So, yesterday, hate. Well, the topic I wrote down for yesterday’s topic was loving your enemies. I don’t think I ever actually stated that. But who is an enemy? What is an enemy? Really, that is a topic that I will revisit again and again. But what does it mean to have an enemy? What does it mean to love an enemy? Well, at times it’s one way. Somebody hates you, and you don’t hate them, and actually I think that is a best case.

Well, one thing I was going to say yesterday that I didn’t get to is that some people don’t… You might not be able to think of an enemy. They may not have an experience with anyone, at the front of their mind at least, that comes to mind that would qualify. Or some people are just so busy with life, or happy, or engaged that they would have to sit long and hard to think of an experience they had that would give them a clue that they might have an enemy somewhere in this world or have had in the past.

The fact is every single one of us, if we were put in a room with… I didn’t start that sentence correctly. There are people currently walking this planet, that no matter who you are, if you were put alone in a room with them, they would want to kill you. They would want to kill you. They don’t know you. I won’t elaborate, but there are people on this planet. There’s this thing called blood lust, and that’s going to be a topic. That’ll be a topic. When I’m making a list of topics, I’ll just add it to my list hopefully if I remember.

But every single one of us, every human,