In my vocabulary, the insistence of God means the insistent problem, task, challenge, obstacle, hurdle, question, and barrier that goes under the name of the “event,” an idea I keep coming back to, circling around, refining and defining, but without trying to be too confining. The name of God, I keep saying, is the name of the chance of an event, a chance for grace, but that spells trouble, a problem, to which the world, and our being-in-the-world, are a series of shaky solutions.
