I have found cause to observe before in this space that the biblical vision of those things that matter most is stubbornly, relentlessly communitarian.
‘This is my story, this is my song’ is an anthem that finds its value not in narcissistic celebration of an individual’s experience, but rather in the foundationally communitarian phenomenon that we call testimony. Testimony begins and ends with community, in the first instance because the individual with a story to tell comes to us as an individual-in-context. In the second, testimony unfailingly appeals to a widening circle of shared life and shared live-ers.
It takes a village. (more…)
Canter Bridge 