Last Sunday, leaning in close to the prayer of Psalm 91, we felt after an answer to the question, how God protects, how God saves. Our thought hung close to the personal experience. We said little of our self in relation to any community, or to larger joined purposes in the world. Yet now,
In a church of the liberal Protestant stripe, if a preacher never spoke of salvation, few would notice, for it has become ecclesiastically incorrect to talk about salvation. The word has become toxic for lots of reasons . . .
Last July, the Public Religion Research Institute reported results of a survey which showed that among adults born after 1980, one sixth are conservatives, but one quarter are progressives. Robert P Jones, head of PRRI, says, “The percentage of religious conservative shrinks in each successive generation . . .”
Such an appalling story. The beloved city is besieged. Famine—man-made, war-made—has them by the throat. No crops come from the fields for no one dares venture outside the city walls. No one is free. Everyone is terrified.
Late last spring, I read a new book by Nick Turse called “Kill Anything That Moves.” I recall the moment I finished it. I closed the cover and laid it on the table and wept some while in silence.
This is the lesson that must be learned. Spiritually speaking, there is no other lesson to learn. It is the one commandment. God comes to nothing.
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