something to ponder a bit

does the ox muse before it fords the stream








I do run away from people who know everything.  One of the most powerful things you can say in life is ‘I don’t know’.  And I think Oxford taught me that. A degree is just that a degree of knowledge. Oxford taught us how much we do not know. I come back to the Church – the Church of England and the Church of Rome tearing themselves apart over the sexuality issue and I’m waiting for someone to have the honesty and courage to get up and say ‘we don’t know, we’re dealing with a mystery’.  Instead all I’m hearing is prelates getting up and making pronouncements as if they knew the mind of God and to me that’s a form almost of idolatry.  Control freaks who know everything bother me.  It’s a lack of humanity as well as humility. The churches need a long moratorium on pronouncing on sex. We’ve lost the value of silence and of listening to it in our church institutions. The constant ‘noise’ of the liturgy reflects this malaise.






john fox or laura evans take your pick












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