The Language Of Faith

Thornton Wilder once wrote these prophetic words:

"The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem -- new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones."

This seems to me to be a much more potent problem than many of us believers grasp. Sometimes, I think of faith as like looking at an old and famous painting for so long that it becomes impossible to see it any more. By see it, I mean see it with eyes fresh to its core meaning, open to its ambiguities and associations, and prepared to b...