May 4, 2005
Word
John Evangelist, the writer, said that the Word became flesh, full of grace and truth. Toni Morrison, the writer, said that it is language that makes us human.
Even though it took a few centuries, the DNA people finally caught on. They take their intriguing double helices and make up a language with only four letters of the alphabet. It’s this word, they say, that when parsed a certain way for each of us becomes flesh, ours, and for a fringe benefit, makes us human. Further, and probably much to the chagrin of some, they now even claim that DNA shows us there’s no such thing as race.
Sure hope they leave sex alone, or else there won’t be anything left for us to make a fuss over. Like John suggested, we churchers would finally have to get on with the business of letting some light into the world through grace and truth and justice and love.
It might even please Jesus if we’d just leave sex to the fig leaves of our imaginations.