The Church of Everyone
In the gifts that celebrate each other’s presence or mark the beauty of life or confer sun on the day lives an ancient spark, one that needs no edict nor demands anything immortal.
In anonymity we find the divine that is visible everywhere, seen nowhere.
In the thought of “my god” is support for the soul lost when uttered, especially when it makes a claim on the public square.
In worship so tiny and constant is the practice that prevents religion from mattering at all.
(In nothing of any god worth any breath is there a call for violence, backwardness or stupidity.)
Instead, in the laws of decency and restraint and generosity and communal effort, we live out our sermon on the flat as the self-evident blessing of liberty.
If the best thing we do is look after each other, then the worst thing we do is pretend to look after each other when in fact we are doing something else.
-–Adam Phillips
In the church of everyone, there is no savior or scapegoat or figure above.
In this, I believe, is a …
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