Last week Kate Perkins, a wonderful young woman who I met at the PAPA Festival while she was spending the summer studying New Monastic communities, came to visit our community (see her thoughts about us in Christian Hippies 8). It was a good time to get her perspective on some of the things we have been thinking about and to just hear her thoughts about faith in general. I hope she will move to DC after she graduates as I think she will be an amazing asset for the budgeoning community here.
While she was visiting I learned about the removal of the cross from the Wren chapel at William and Mary and she said she was writing an editorial. My instant reaction was to think removing the cross was a nonsensical thing to do and my face and huff betrayed my perspective. Her response was, “I’m writing in support of its removal.” Instantly, I understood. Seeking the cross be returned runs parallel to insisting that “under God” remain in the pledge of allegiance, fighting for “In God We Trust” to remain on our currency, or for a moment of silence to open our school days. They are acts that in actually do very little to further the cause of God and by-in-large detract from it. In fact, all of them are more about giving lip-service to God than bringing a worthy sacrifice. They in no way help us continue to be a Christian nation–an historically bankrupt concept anyway.
Kate insightfully uses Isaiah to point to the idolatry of worshipping symbols. Take a look at her opinion editorial in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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