Does your religion dance?

Darn!  And I thought I was original.  Nope, just the social/cultural hack that I have always been.  In any case, my sister-in-law sent me this link in response to my post on the death of the PC(USA).

From Mark Moford's column, Does your religions dance? Behold, the most dangerous issue facing modern faith: Its inability to evolve, nakedly.

It's a topic that jumped up like a stunned ferret from God's own hot plate three separate times recently — indicating, I think, that I'd better pay some sort of attention to it — the topic being the obvious but still desperately under-discussed idea that perhaps the most dangerous problem facing man in this modern age of radical technology and dazzling scientific conundrum and otherworldly raspberry vodka and ever-expanding notions of love and sex and human interconnection is the sad and treacherous fact that, well, religion and belief as we know them in America are, by and large, far too horribly stuck, limited, fixed in time and place and stiff karmic cement.

Put another way: We as a culture just might be suffering a slow, painful death by spiritual stagnation, by ideological stasis, by cosmic rigor mortis. It has become painfully, lethally obvious in the age of George W. Bush and authoritarian groupthink that our major religious systems and foundations don't know how to move. They don't learn, adjust, evolve, see things anew. They don't know how to dance. And what's more, this little problem might just be the death of us all.

Amen brother, amen.

 

Comments

[Tyler]

Another good article...yours was better though. So I'm hoping you will post a blog or blogs on how you think we "dance" as a church today. I love the emergent conversation but what we need even more than conversation (which is an important part of our culture shift) is how we stay relevant through action.