Angol
Apparently, Christianity has passed its use by date. It is out of favor with the urban, time-pressed, latte-sipping, wine-quaffing, emailing post-modern West. From London to New York: the Church, God and Jesus are cause for embarrassment. I mean, who wants to be known as religious? The reason for this is that God is a problem because, in the face of suffering, God is absent. God is just not there. In "I Met God in Bermuda", Steven Ogden shows how twenty-first century faith is an open, dynamic and courageous attitude toward life. It presumes that God is found not in the sky, but in the midst of life. It begins with experience, our shared experience. While experience is not everything, it is a good starting point. It is what we know.Ironically, a new description of God can enrich and inspire human experience and community by incorporating the idea of the absence of God. Nevertheless, there are also exquisite but fleeting moments of presence. While an encounter with presence is short-lived, we learn to live without it, half expecting another unexpected encounter with the presence of God in the world.
