Irony

Yesterday, while schlepping books for my job, I was privileged to hear a lecture by Marilyn Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winner for Gilead. Oddly enough, Robinson touched on some of the very issues I blabbed about in my last post. In discussing the issue of particularity (Robinson talked from a Reformed perspective), as well as the decline of mainline denominations, she hit a very important point: somewhere along the way, we have forgotten to talk about Christ's grace and the need to see such grace in each other. As for the decline of the mainline Church, Robinson says, maybe we should focus on proclaiming that grace as a way of attracting people to faith, instead of "acting as if the body of Christ just doesn't have enough bling." Well said, sistah, well said.