doc summers on Tiger Mountain

Class discussions the other day turned my thinking to the moral and ethical interrelationships of politics, economics, community, and ecology. These do all hang together in a concept of ecumene. No news to anyone, I suppose, but if any of us thought that our decisions, based as they are sometimes on selfishness and greed, had no consequences for anyone else, the news always proves us wrong. No wonder we need to be reminded that our general individual and corporate wretchedness needs not only redemption but considerable discipline in redemptive community. That’s all the more reason, then, to make sure the walls of the church do not restrict the living, breathing church from drawing others into the circle of trust, under the tent of life. There is no solitary redemption.