Tag: revelation

Would a person of such decency respond to the atrocities in Gaza by declaring that the Lord is coming soon? Of course not! It’s insensitive as well as biblically flawed. We should be deeply concerned about the murders of thousands of Palestinian civilians. We should not exploit these horrors as an opportunity to declare that Jesus is on his way.

There's a gap. A gap between the possibility of holiness and the convoluted facts on the ground. There’s a distance between my daydreams, in which all things seem possible, and the possibilities that spill onto the blacktop and seep into the cracks.

As a Christian, the almost weekly news of followers of Jesus being tortured, raped, beheaded, burned alive, driven from homes and ancestral lands adds a weight of sorrow that I have never experienced in my 29 years as a follower of Jesus.