You wrote something last month: The 6 stages of outrage against evil. Tell us about those.
I've noticed that churches move through stages that start with absolute outrage and end up with acceptance.
I used alcohol as an example. There was the Prohibition, then we decided that Christians shouldn't do it, then it was our tradition that didn't, then it was "unwise", then questionable, and finally not even an issue.
I just wanted to provoke the church to think about things like this.
What does it tell us about the human psyche that we always want to moderate?
I think in the Church we get weary. At some point, you just don't have the muscle to enforce prohibition.
It's compromise, in a way. That's the negative term for it.
In other ways, it's just adaptation to the world we live in.
You've talked about standards in your writing. Are we a better or lesser church for all our rules?
I have a hunch that every time we let one down, we add one.
There's different kinds of new prohibitions in the church.
My old church had no stance on abortion at all. We've now moved into issues like environmentalism.
I've wondered if it's maybe a zero-sum game. You win one, you lose one.
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