October 14, 2004

Atheists

I was told recently of an Episcopal parish that includes among its actively pledging, attending, and serving people, a group whose members have one other important thing in common — they do not believe in God.

I wondered, when I learned of it, if perhaps after all we have finally and truly become an inclusive church.

Then I thought, what better place for atheists to be, both for themselves and for all the rest of us hangers-on, than in a church where they may not only freely challenge the appropriated theology just by their mere presence, but where we might learn that the God of our understanding is altogether more prodigious than our understanding of God.

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