Sunday, June 20, 2010

Friday, June 11 2010 @ 09:58 AM EDT Contributed by: Kimberly Views: 97 10:00 AM Single Traditional Service “Governance and Covenant in an Age of Terror” Rev. Jake Bohstedt Morrill, leading worship Not so long ago, the world appeared to have been tamed into some kind of rational order. Authority was clear, if often unfair. War and peace, if unsettling, was conducted between state powers. The media formed a unified narrative of what was the truth. The twenty-first century has brought with it a new and open-ended dynamic. This is not necessarily good nor bad. It can look like creativity, on blogs and online self-sustaining communities. And it can look like a car-bomb in a market-place. As people who place faith in the enduring worth of certain qualities of community—agreement, accountability, and appreciation—how can we make decisions in this dynamic new world? What does democracy look like? Or, for that matter, covenant?

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