Look closely: when the church needs to be firm, it is carefully bland; when it should be insistent, it is absent; and when it ought to stand up and stand out, it is content to sit down and stay put. It is content to sit down, even when threatened and insulted by the pompous. The best that it can do is to be a part of an amorphous mass. The church has cornered itself through strategic detachment, which contributes to its de minimis relevance in the social-political milieu. In the 20th century, the church was in the forefront; in the 21st the preference is to be somewhere behind the middle or nowhere at all. Nevertheless, the powers regard it with suspicion, because like a geriatric warrior, it still has instincts and the outline of potential musculature. ~ GHK Lall
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 14:07:50 +0000
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