The Job Of Art Is To Chase

Even Though I'm A Believer, I Still Find It Really Hard To Be Around Other Believers. They Make Me Nervous, They Make Me Twitch. I Sorta Watch My Back.

But With Christ, We Have Access In A One-to-one Relationship, For, As In The Old Testament, It Was More One Of Worship And Awe, A Vertical Relationship. The New Testament, On The Other Hand, We Look Across At A Jesus Who Looks Familiar, Horizontal. The Combination Is What Makes The Cross.

I Used To Love Kurt Cobain, When He Was Telling People We're A Pop Band. People Would Laugh, They Thought Of It As Good Old Ironic Kurt. But He Wasn't Being Ironic.

You See, Africa Makes A Fool Of Our Idea Of Justice. It Makes A Farce Of Our Idea Of Equality. It Mocks Our Pieties. It Doubts Our Concern. It Questions Our Commitment. Because There Is No Way We Can Look At What's Happening In Africa, And If We're Honest, Conclude That It Would Ever Be Allowed To Happen Anywhere Else.

I Remember How My Mother Would Bring Us To Chapel On Sundays... And My Father Used To Wait Outside. One Of The Things That I Picked Up From My Father And My Mother Was The Sense That Religion Often Gets In The Way Of God. For Me, At Least, It Got In The Way.