" The more they get out there and speak freely, the richer a view of Christianity the world will get, to replace the two-dimensional retro soap that Fleet Street makes of Church." - Bishop Alan (for a limited time here).
Faith is multiform, diverse, post-modern, ancient, mad and completely sane. You can dump it in a stereotypical bucket with maiden aunts, bicycling on their way to church through 2 inches of warm beer past the cricketers on the village green. Or realise the maiden aunts are now the vicars, the latest wicket in the cricket was when M Mistry was caught R Mistry off the bowling of J Singh. And the beer is Wadworth 6X, natch.
You faith-mongers of the twenty-first century, you don't have to defend Arnold, Temple and King James. However fond you may be of one or more of them. You don't live then - you live now. You don't have to be stuck into a Daily Mail view that you're sex-obsessed, Kum Bayah singing dweebs with dead animals on your heads and the BCP on your lips. Put your blogs on the line, tweet your faith and make it clear - God is real, Jesus is alive, the Spirit can move in cyberspace and the most-connected, most-alive, most-essential people living are people of faith. Because your faith is more vital, more varied, more colourful than any alternative.
(And you can quote the BCP or Extraordinary Roman Rite if you like - we mostly won't understand you, but that's what diversity means).
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