It's not the high and mighty ones like the emperor or the high priests who 'receive the word of the Lord' in scripture. It's always the outsiders, those whose ‘otherness’ ‘questions our treating our perspective as if it were God’s’. Like the poet whose words spark fresh ways of seeing life, like the musician whose sounds provoke new sensations in us, like the lover who makes demands on us we never knew we could meet, the outsider may reveal to us ‘that we do not live in the world we think we live in’ (Rowan Williams) Is the future of the spirit to be found among those experimenting and creating 'outside the world we think we live in'? There are plenty of inspiring examples.

A talk for The Second Sunday of Advent, 5 December 2021.

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