Rage Against The....

What therefore is our task today? Shall I answer: “faith, hope and love”? That sounds beautiful, but I would say – courage. No, even that is not challenging enough to be the whole truth.

Our task today is recklessness. For what we Christians lack today is not psychology or literature, we lack a holy rage, the recklessness that comes from a knowledge of God and humanity. The ability to rage when justice lies prostrate on the street, and when the lie rages across the face of the earth. A holy anger about the things that are wrong in the world. To rage against the ravaging of God’s earth, and the destruction of God’s world. To rage when little children die of hunger while the tables of the rich are sagging with food. To rage at the senseless killing of so many and against the madness of militaries. To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death and the strategy of destruction “peace”. To rage against complacency, to restlessly seek that recklessness that will challenge and seek to change human history until is conforms to the norms of the Kingdom of God.

Prayer of Kaj Munk, Danish pastor before he was killed by the Gestapo, January, 1944.