Jesus Is Back, This Time It's Personal
At the heart of religion are mystery and terror; peace, joy, gratitude, and forgiveness, it seems to me, are byproducts of, responses to, our encounters with the divine, which is maybe just another word for the awful, irreversible, unexalted realization that we are huge-spirited animals who will nevertheless die alone in misery and pain"or, as a former colleague of mine, Tom Jacobs, recently put it, much more sanguin…