Perhaps at this moment, we are getting a brief and fragmentary glimpse into one of the deepest mysteries of the kingdom of God. In this light, perhaps the death and resurrection of Jesus shimmer as the most profound sign and wonder of all, showing the scandalous truth that no human system can be trusted, that all -isms are potentially demonic and idolatrous “graven ideologies.” Perhaps this understanding of the kingdom reveals the horrible truth that even church and state with their sacred theologies and ideologies, like all other structures of this world, will—given the chance—execute God so
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Too subversive to be overt
