…just like Alcoholics Anonymous is the place where you go when you’ve got dependence on alcohol, the community of believers should be the place you go because you’ve got a dependency on religion.

…and this for me is the good news of Christianity. It’s not that we repress our anxieties and we “believe” in God so we don’t have to face up to our pains and sufferings, but it’s that we are a community of people who live amongst uncertainty and unknowing. We talk about our suffering and our pain, we mourn, we listen to one another, and we find faith and God and the ability to say ‘yes’ to life in the midst of it all. That is eternal life. In the Bible death is not something that happens in the future, death is a mode of living…and eternal life is about a mode of being that starts here and now.

—Peter Rollins speaking at Revolution NYC

Drawing by Bette Burgoyne

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