The United Church of Canada has a new Moderator, Mardi Tindal. According to recent reports, “She tweets. She’s green. She’s media savvy. She’s animated.” – all laudable accomplishments which St. Peter and St. Paul sadly lacked. In addition to a new moderator, the United Church has also invented a new language where “belief is a noun and faith is a verb.”
New Moderator, new language and, new Creed – some would say, new religion. In keeping with modern family life, the Father is absent:
We are not alone,
we live in God’s world.
We believe in God:
who has created and is creating,
who has come in Jesus,
the Word made flesh,
to reconcile and make new,
who works in us and others
by the Spirit.We trust in God.
We are called to be the Church:
to celebrate God’s presence,
to live with respect in Creation,
to love and serve others,
to seek justice and resist evil,
to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,
our judge and our hope.
In life, in death, in life beyond death,
God is with us.We are not alone.
Thanks be to God.
Indeed, we are not alone; The Truth Is Out There; I Want To Believe.