The September issue of Third Way has an article in it from Alistair McIntosh called ‘Fire in the Bones’. In it, he writes about Jeremiah’s complaint in Jeremiah 15 & 20, that God deceived, seduced and overpowered him into becoming an activist. The word translated as ‘overpower’ apparently has Biblical resonances of rape.
I have not read further than that yet. For me, this flies in the face of the narrow piety that I experience in the majority of the Christians that I meet.
What honours God more? The unthinking acceptance and worship of what passes for the current pious Christian, or the shouting, wrestling and accusation of an unsatisfied seeker after truth?