talk by Jim Forest
An excerpt:
In the dawn of time, back in the fifties, my favorite comic strip concerned an assortment of animals living in Florida’s Okefenokee Swamp. The artist, a whimsical man named Walt Kelly – Wikipedia, referred to them as “nature’s schreechers.”
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You may wonder why Jim Forest – Wikipedia, who is supposed to be talking about “Following Christ in a Violent World,” is instead talking about a comic strip on the 1950s? The answer is that, while I was thinking about what I might say here in Canton, I found myself haunted by a single sentence that Pogo said many a time during the years this strip was being drawn: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
This is a key verse from the Gospel According to Pogo (comic strip) – Wikipedia.
We have met the enemy and he is us, as I was to learn later in life, sums up a lot of the writings of the Church Fathers, the principal theologians of Christianity’s first millennium.
Please click on: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us