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This blog is primarily intended for Christians who believe that in Christ God has truly come into our world, and are asking themselves — why has this coming not made a bigger difference? As someone who was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition I often look at things through the lens of my upbringing in that Church. However I am one of those Catholics who has found herself squeezed out of a Church that is becoming smaller, more exclusive, and more “orthodox.”
In the mid to late 1990’s I began to realize the Church I grew up in, and had served as a lay ecclesial minister for years, was becoming an uncomfortable fit. There were jagged edges poking at me, tight places squeezing the Spirit out of me, and bits of gritty things creeping into this religion of my birth. I managed to stay in denial for years, making one excuse after another on behalf of the Church I loved. I was not alone in the endeavor to stay, even while no longer feeling at home in the Church. It’s a lot like growing out of a pair of shoes you love, or clothes, or whatever. It’s hard to let go of what you know; of what you love.
Here we are in a new millennium, and under its present leadership the Roman Catholic Church has skidded to a stop, and is moving backward. As the present pope and bishops make pronouncement after pronouncement, I realize that the Church I experienced after the Council of Vatican II must have been an abberation, and that the present leadership is taking the Church back to the “tradition” of the ages. There are people within the Roman Catholic Church who will rejoice in this movement back, others who will resign themselves to things as they are, others who really don’t care and ignore whatever the bishops say, and others who will struggle and fight to stop the backsliding. But for me, and some few others, we must keep moving with the Spirit of God, and therefore must let the Church move backwards without us.
As I considered my own faith tradition, I began to ponder the whole experience of Christianity down through the ages. My crisis of faith with a Church led to a re-examination of Christianity itself. If Jesus the Christ is the Incarnation of God, the Messiah, the Anointed One of God come into the world, why is the world still a mess, and so far from God? Now with this blog I seek to consider the failure of Christianity to transform our world as promised, ask why, and reflect on the insights I gather from my own experiences and from what I learn from others.
Here is what I believe: it is time for all Christians to wake up! We need to stop doing things in the same old ways. Each and every Christian needs to attend to the Spirit within and listen to what God is revealing today. And what we discover needs to be truly something that is world changing, not the same old stuff that hasn’t worked, and never will work.
Let us reflect together, in the name of the Creator, of Christ who reveals God to us, and of the Spirit of God within…
Go to: All Creation Waits: The Book
