Countdown Day 9

If the first narrative situates us in God’s good, evolving world that has been marred and scarred by human evil, the second narrative situates us in humanity’s oppressive, resistant world in which God is active as liberator – freeing us from external and internal oppression and forming us as the people of God. (58)

From A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith (available February 9, 2010)