a crisis of beauty

There is that essential charm in theology - the story of Christianity. The effect of religion is at least as deep rooted as is human history - partly because religion itself is a record of history.

There is this beauty in religion that it can explain everything - even things that science cannot. Nothing comforts more than when all nature is explained through a simple story. It is really the story that makes religion so graspable and far reaching.

There are many other things woven into religion but primarily it is the the human story that forms most of its appeal. Religion stands time, the future - and our being outside of the realms of time is pondered over and is explained convincingly by religion. Nothing else nearly achieves that.

The feelings of love, family and other values can be easily irreversibly tied together with this story. The story only provides beauty and its only the beauty itself that religion is tied to. Unfortunately we tend to claim more than beauty from assertions of our religion. That is where the beauty of religion fails to converge with the nature of its appeal. This is the crisis that we deal with.