Much has been said about the imagery in this brief, dense letter towards the end of the New Testament. The oft-quoted phrase "God is Love" is found uniquely in 1 John, yet much of the letter is difficult to make sense of due to seeming contradictions and improbable binaries. We will be spending two months drinking deeply from the author's complex symbols and teachings, working to liberate the text from our own binary thinking and asking 1 John to call us into greater faithfulness.
