Today features Andy Campbell in #Liturgical with The Loss of Lament. We have lost the art of lament and it is killing our faith. Western, affluent, success-oriented Christianity is so focused on blessing and praise that it doesn’t know what to do with tragedy or pain. In a weak attempt to offer consolation and hope, we sputter out platitudes about what God’s motivations must be (“God needed another angel in heaven”), what the grieving person should do (“just trust God’s plan”), or what we’ll d0 on their behalf (“I’ll pray for you”). At our core, though, we have no idea what to do with anger and tragedy and grief, so we do or say whatever we can to put some distance between us and it. In doing so, we rob ourselves of the opportunity to lament. Read the rest of this timely piece here: antiochsession/2014/06/25/the-loss-of-lament/
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:32:53 +0000
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