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The Ghost In The Cloud
Our churches have become safe, our services sterile. The excitement in our churches is faux-dangerous, like Disneyland. Every Sunday morning we get in, buckle up and go swooping up and around, dangling over the abyss, careening around corners and, finally, rolling back into the station, breathless and excited perhaps, but always safe, knowing full well that we were never for a moment in any real danger.
Is this living?!
Is this all there is to being fully alive?!
In large part ‘Christianity’ has become just one more of the religious expressions of humankind. (I am often saddened that it was labeled, organized and institutionalized like it has been. However, even in this diminished form ‘Christianity’ is superior to all other religions. (The same is true of it as is said about democracy— it is the worst form of government, except for all the rest.) Christianity as a religious system has taken its place next to Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism as one of the “great religions of the world.” How did this happen?! How did the most exciting, momentous thing to ever happen in the history of the world become so weak and uninteresting?
As Dorothy L. Sayers observed, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.”
The Ghost In The Cloud is a roadmap for the terrain of the invisible realm. It takes on the sacred cows of Evangelical Christianity in America in the hope that the reader will see “beyond the sacred page” to the Living God, alive in this moment.
Is this living?!
Is this all there is to being fully alive?!
In large part ‘Christianity’ has become just one more of the religious expressions of humankind. (I am often saddened that it was labeled, organized and institutionalized like it has been. However, even in this diminished form ‘Christianity’ is superior to all other religions. (The same is true of it as is said about democracy— it is the worst form of government, except for all the rest.) Christianity as a religious system has taken its place next to Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism as one of the “great religions of the world.” How did this happen?! How did the most exciting, momentous thing to ever happen in the history of the world become so weak and uninteresting?
As Dorothy L. Sayers observed, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.”
The Ghost In The Cloud is a roadmap for the terrain of the invisible realm. It takes on the sacred cows of Evangelical Christianity in America in the hope that the reader will see “beyond the sacred page” to the Living God, alive in this moment.
74 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 16, 2021
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