Holding Out For Hope and Renewal

This morning my early reading was focused around Deuteronomy, after last evening wrapping up some 15 brief chapters in the manuscript entitled Apologetics or Apology.

Deuteronomy is basically a restating of the Mosaic law. My manuscript, an attempt to capture the trajectory that moves from Genesis to Revelation, one quite convincing.

Yet at the same time, there seems a constant realignment necessary as we humans tend to convince ourselves that "we've got this". We then repackage it institutionally, furthering the divide, yet defending our truth to the death. That'smartry territory.

We then find ourselves in moments like we are currently experiencing in this "Christian nation." This moment however, neither feels Christ-like nor is unity implied by the word, nation, evident!

"Roughly every few centuries, religion drifts toward institutional (in our case nearing governmental control, parentheses mine) and then crisis produces reform—usually marked by:

-return to original sources

-renewed emphasis on conscience and covenant

-decentralization of authority

moral or spiritual renewal."

The quote above offers more hope than now felt by many.

The history however seems on the money (no pun intended).

Though my research this morning only tracked from Moses forward, at least within Judeo-Christian, we are overdue a reforming moment (see graphics above, with my apologies). My friend AI, usually offers a better product.

Hoping this current chaos is a precursor of some future transformation within our republic.