Liturgy · Laughter · Camaraderie · Contemplation
As we approach the end of our series on Exile & Empire, I’d like to explore a bit further something I alluded to earlier. Speaking of the effects of the Jesus story upon humankind, I wrote: Or to put all this in (much) less orthodox terms, maybe there is no external divine Agent accomplishing any of this, […]
In this series we have seen that Jesus, by his anguished cry from the cross (“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”), utterly and completely subverted the American Gospel which promises that we can avoid the void if we just do X, Y, or Z. Rather than seeking to circumvent the darkness, Jesus plunged himself […]