We live in such incredible tension. The world around us is filled with incalculable beauty and yet unimaginable tragedy:
Pinochet's crimes against the Chilean people remind me of what Crossan says, "The primary goal of the Church is to take the world back from the thugs":
The affirmation that Jesus is Lord, is an affirmation of a world view that is wholly different than what we typically experience. May we find the strength to truly love others as we love ourselves and so change the tragic tide of history as we partner with God as he restores this broken world.
2 comments:
it is quite the stunning contrast - beauty vs evil - one fills you while the other drains you right back out. I am in full support of taking back our world (in the most peaceful way possible of course)
I know...even the language of "taking back the world" seems so thuggish...but Jesus seemed to be the epitome of the anti-thug.
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