"[The Church] claims to be the reality of which Caesar’s empire is the parody; it claims to be modeling the genuine humanness, not least the justice and peace, and the unity across traditional racial and cultural barriers, of which Caesar’s empire boasted. If this claim is not to collapse once more into dualism, into a rejection of every human aspiration and value, it will be apparent that there will be a large degree of overlap. 'Shun what is evil; cling to what is good.' There will be affirmation as well as critique, collaboration as well as critique. To collaborate without compromise, to criticize without dualism—this is the delicate path that Jesus’ counter-empire had to learn to tread." And which we at present must learn to tread. (Read the full post here.)Something to think about in an election year, as little as it pleases me to say so...
Peace.
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