God

Look closely, Jesus says let “the little children come to me.” He does not say compel them to come to me. He doesn’t say make your unruly teenagers sit through the church service. Yet some of us do. And what’s worse, we do it in the name of the Lord.

Over the last several months, a lot of ink has been spilled in the ongoing debate between self-declared atheists and self-proclaimed Christians. This back and forth has taken the form of books, TV debates, correspondence debates, and who knows how many blog streams.

In this emerging postmodern condition, when growing numbers of Christians and followers of Jesus are once again recognizing themselves as exiles amid empire, when a plurality of difference rather than homogeneity is the norm of everyday life, as we enter an era of post-Christendom, the language of “my God” is called for once again. Within post-Christendom, space enough is produced for “my God” and “your god.”