[ z ē ' n ĭ t h ] -noun 1. an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world…The great wheel of God rolls on, applauded by those who refuse to see the bodies of the last great people of the age crushed beneath it. Those who stand tallest are always the first to die: may the steamroller God of the edge have mercy on their souls.
If there are any gifts given to us by God, I think they come in this form: moments that we don’t expect, people that are here and then gone, dreams and memories that you can hardly remember. Our lives are so fragile, and so tenuously balanced between a darkness we cannot survive and a light we haven’t yet learned to live with - what the divine places directly into them cannot remain. It would undo us.
It’s no surprise that the Christian Church is failing. People say the church is full of hypocrites? It is! People say the church is inward-looking, behind the times, slow to change? It is! People say the church is full of self-interested, self-righteous, self-worshipping bigots incapable of looking past their own over-inflated egos? By all that used to be held as Holy, it is! But the one thing you will have trouble finding, the one thing the church is no longer filled with? Christians.
‘the theologian‘ - the weekly column from backgroundbob
20.04.08
Imagine something impossible: a world where God made sense. An existence where the omniscient could be fully understood, where equality with the omnipotent was possible: imagine a place where lions could lie down with lions. Imagine the blue-black curtain of the night sky peeling away to reveal… well, [...]
