"Jesus claims to provide an adequate
respose to human dastardliness - that sneaky wickedness that is
corporate and individual, conscious and unconscious, seen and unseen.
There is something alluring about the
word dastardly. I use the word dastardly instead of the much simpler
word sin. I do this because the word sin has little resonance in a
secular society, but the failure to recognise sin does not mean that it
has no impact. As we puzzle how to pivot, to turn ourselves around and
turn the issue... around we are confronted
by sin - dastardliness, our own, other peoples and the dastardliness
that runs adeep and furtively through our world. Jesus provides a path
through this dastardliness. For those who are Christians this way
through is secured through Jesus' death and resurrection, but Christians
and non Christains alike will be interested in how, by showing us how
to live, Jesus also provides a path through dastardliness." - Ann Morisy