April 9, 2008
Calendar
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s on the calendar today. It’s because he was a truth-teller. It’s also because he was planning to break one of the Ten Commandments in a plot to murder Hitler. He got caught. The Nazis hanged him. It was sixty-three years ago when, like Martin Luther King, he was only thirty-nine.
There’s not much point in his being remembered unless he reminds us that the truth we’re to be about telling is not so much about words as it is about the Word made flesh. Jesus said, I am the truth. In other words, he walked the talk.
Molly Ivins was a talk-walker. One time, she told it like this: “So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.”
Come on churchers. Are we having any fun?
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