Chapter One
Jesus Today
Telling His Story
We live in a "Christ haunted" and "Christ forgetting" culture. So wrote Walker Percy over thirty years ago at the beginning of his novel
Love in the Ruins:
Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ forgetting and Christ haunted death dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines [italics added].
The passage strikes a more ominous tone than I intend, but its description of our culture rings true. Even as we forget Jesus in many ways, we remain fascinated by him.
The last few years have witnessed several epiphanies of our fascination. In 2004, Mel Gibson's movie
The Passion of the Christ was a major cultural event. Its graphic po ...
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