Beyond: Knowing the Unknown

Father Richard Rohr says, "The Bible, in its entirety, finds a fine balance between known and not-knowning, between using words and having humility about words. The ensuing Christian traditions have often not found that same balance. What I've called 'Churchianity' typically needs to speak with absolutes and certanties. It thinks it has the right and the obligation to make total truth-claims and feels very insecure when it cannot. Isaiah invites us to consider mystery, which is not new, into the conversation of faith. God is in relationship with us... in ways that are not our ways.