The Offense of Wild Words
The abundant life that is hard to keep tidy | The Word in the Wild, Proper 16, Year B
“Many of his students who’d listened said, ‘This is rough talk. Who can stand to listen to it?’”
-John 6:60 (The Gospels: A New Translation by Sarah Ruden)
The wild edges must be trimmed, the fields cultivated, the forests managed—there …