Liturgy as Newspaper

Hot off the press, something has happened and is being reported as fact, taking place in space and time. We read, we think, we converse--we respond. Come in off the sidewalk and pick it up. It is declarative of something fresh, something alive--the news of a dynamic God on the move. He is assembling a people, building a kingdom, renewing the cosmos. Just as we open our city's daily newspaper with the expecation of being informed and even challenged by the realities of our world, so might we open our liturgies with the expectation of being informed and indeed challenged by the realities of our God and His world. War is Over, Christ is Risen.