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Putting Jesus Back Together Again
This audiograph was sparked by a story for the Friendly Men. It’s about an Urban Abbey, a program at St. George’s that uses monastic practices to reconnect people with their faith. Spirituality & Health also wanted an article.
It’s curious how often Americans come up with remedies for healing their faith from the damage of everyday life. Working all week long till Sunday comes and we can dust Jesus off and put him back on the shelf . . . but then tugged by some lingering sense of shame for letting him fall off in the first place.
It suggests an incongruity in our lives, between the way we live and the way we want to worship, as if the two could only get along by bloodying each other up. Just to get by we apparently need things like “10 Ways a Busy Mom Can Build Her Spiritual Life” , prayer gardens, and labyrinths. It’s as if faith should be kept immaculate and separate from the rest of our lives so it can remain untainted by the ungodliness that we suffer upon our soul every other day.
Can the two not touch, not interact?
Posted by 1000monkeys on November 4, 2005 03:11 AM