I will not say that William Stringfellow was a theologian because he repeatedly stated that he was not.  To contradict him would be unloving.

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What he did say about himself was that he was a Christian.  And in saying that he meant something wholly different than what people commonly mean by so identifying.  This blog is about what he meant by that for himself.

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Following up on what this meant for him, these posts are by necessity also about what being a Christian is supposed to be for anyone else who accepts the witness of the first Christians and who lives in the world today, as Bill Stringfellow did.  This is quite different from what people have mostly been led to believe about what that looks like.

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[It is] no wonder, [that] in the earliest circumstance...when the State confronted Christ...that it should find him criminal.... 

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And [it is] no wonder, at this present moment, where the power of death is so militant in the universities, in corporate structure, in churches, in the labor movement, in political institutions, in the Pentagon, in the business of science, in the technological order, in the environment itself, in the realms of ideology, in the State, that as with Jesus, so the Christian...should also be regarded as criminal [as well]...

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- Suspect Tenderness, William Stringfellow and Anthony Towne

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