THE LIVING GOD
Dead gods (meaning ineffective ones) are a dime a dozen. The God I cannot finally evade, no matter how hard I try, refuses to sit on the sidelines but keeps turning up – though not as often or as clearly as I would like – a God who is involved in the struggle with us, empowering us, rather than overpowering us. This God works through the prophets (who often resented divine intrusions as much as we do); in a special way through almost anyone who happens to turn up, whether “believer” or no; even on occasion through the church, which expends so much energy vainly trying to take a message whose radical dimensions keep showing through. The message is love, but instead of being ethereal, stained glass window love, it is earth love, employing justice as the handiest immediate vehicle for bringing love to flower. From Christianity and Crisis, December 16, 1991, “What Keeps You Going,” by Robert McAfee Brown
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