Still being born...

IT HAS TAKEN ME A LONG TIME TO BE BORN. I began my life in the warm, secure womb of fundamentalism. Gradually I emerged from that womb into a more open, liberal point of view. But from time to time I backslid. (Backsliding is a term from evangelical Christian talk that indicates a person going back into sin after being saved.) Several times in my life I turned from my liberal perspective and went in the opposite direction, going back to a more secure conservative position. My theological point of view has been on a roller coaster ride over the years. I have tried to go back into the womb of security from time to time.

A few years ago I finally let go of any desire to go back to Egypt and committed myself to the ongoing journey to the land of milk and honey. The author of the Letter to the Hebrew in the New Testament speaks to me when he/she says, “But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and so are saved” (10.39).