“Christian faith is not about some god who is an abstract presence somewhere else but about the living presence of God here and now, in this world, in exactly this world, as we know it and touch it and smell it and live and work in it. That is why, incidentally, all the well-meant talk of “making the gospel relevant” to the life of the world is false and vulgar. It secretly assumes that God is a stranger among us, who has to be introduced to us and to our anxieties and triumphs and issues and efforts. The meaning of Jesus Christ is that the Word of God is addressed to people, to all people, in the very events and relationships, any and every one of them, that constitute our existence in this world. That is the theology of the Incarnation.”
– Mr. William Stringfellow (1928 – 1985),
American Episcopal lay theologian.
A Keeper of the Word, p. 140.
Interrupting the Silence 
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