“After Auschwitz, Who Can Say God?” – Richard Kearney, Anatheism

Lately, I have found myself remembering or reminiscing about the time I thought I might be able to return to God after God.

I didn’t.

Then on on November 8th, 2016, I washed my hands of Evangelicals, too: “I will never forgive them for this.”

For if God was, God was precarious, resting in their hands.

I see now that I was wrong. God is precarious, but God can be with or without them. It was never in their hands, though it remains in ours.

Many concluded after the Holocaust that the only God possible was a weak God, a God that only is through us, a God “who wanted to come but was not able to come because humans failed to invite the sacred stranger into existence.”¹

Christians have failed in this way over and over. Evangelicals specifically, it seems, are failing now. But look at what is happening–despite them. Look at what is happening.

Heather Heyer, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and everyone else rising up to resist racism, fascism, sexism, and other forms of evil… They are inviting the sacred stranger into existence. They are showing up, allowing God to show up.

God has returned to me, through them, in their resistance.

More significantly, God is returning to us, as God resists through and with us.

¹ Richard Kearney, Anatheism, 61.