Atomic Jesus
Christ Rising Above the Chaos, by luxangelae Lections: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost ( Lectionary 32 ), AD 2026 A Homily: Lord, we pray for the preacher, for you know his sins are great. Grace, mercy and peace to you from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Humans need a horizon. We need that intersection where heaven meets the earth: a line to which we lift our eyes, even though our feet can never reach it. This, more than anything, separates us from our fellow creatures. Crows use tools. Whales have language. Elephants mourn their dead. But given what they need in order to survive, other animals remain perfectly content being what they are. They needn’t fret over notions of purpose or value or meaning. We alone yearn for transcendence. We alone contain the bone-deep conviction that the way the world is, is not the way it ought to be. We alone have within ourselves a God-sized hole, a hunger for infinity, that nothing in this finite...
