Walter Brueggemann on alternate scripts

Walter Brueggemann on alternate scripts, including:

Only the church in its better days -- and the synagogue and the mosque on their better days -- is able to mediate irascible holiness, evoke consequent ambivalence, manage that ambivalence toward newness, and then wait.

Lately I'm having a hard time believing we're in the church's "better days," and so I'm praying that the Spirit (and we ARE in Pentecost after all), will come down upon us!