Honestly, what are we looking for as Americans? Honestly, what are Evangelical Christians looking for? Honestly, what are liberal Christians looking for? What do we all want?
“Many of us who call ourselves Christian long to be what we call ourselves, but we cannot see how to do it, granted our culture’s basic assumptions about what it means to be a human being. If we assume with our culture that the goal of human life is individual self-development, how does this goal leave space for love that might thwart that development? How does the need for assertiveness in a world that despises the weak fit with the Christ who ‘did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant” (Phil. 2:6-7)? How does an ethos of productivity fit with the image of the cross? We suspect that our culture’s assumptions about human life may be wrong but it is hard to see what alternatives we have.”
Roberta Bondi, To Love as God Loves