Do you love me?*

July 2, 2008

How extraordinarily dangerous love is.

And wouldn’t it be nice, I think (absurdly recalling that old Beach Boys song about two lovers waking up “in the kind of world where we belong”), if for once, just once, we could achieve redemption without blood, if the empty cross would mean not only the resurrection that gives life but a vision of life beyond this constant, dismal, stupid need we have for sacrificial lambs, and all because we are less afraid of violence than of love.

GARRET KEIZER, Turning Away from Jesus: Gay Rights and the War for the Episcopal Church. Harper’s Magazine, June 2008.

*Jesus to Simon Peter, John 21:16

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