This One's For You STAG

Kaj Munk (1898-1944) - Kaj Harald Leininger Petersen Danish playwright and priest, whose outspoken, passionately patriotic sermons during World War II led to his being killed by the Nazis.
Munk helped revitalize the Danish theatre by his rejection of the naturalistic drama in favor of the more spiritually oriented plays. Dominant features in Munk's writings were his deep Christian faith and admiration for the strong-willed man of action.

Quote:
"What is the task of the preacher (or the church) today?
Shall I answer: "Faith, hope and love"?
That sounds beautiful.
But I would say -- Courage.
No, even that is not challenging enough
to be the whole truth.
Our task today is recklessness.
For what we Christians lack
is not psychology or literature,
We lack a holy rage.
The recklessness that comes
from the knowledge of God and humanity.
The ability to rage when
justice lies prostrate on the streets . .
and when the lie rages across the face of the earth
--a holy anger about things that are wrong in the world.
To rage against the ravaging of God's earth,
and the destruction of God's world.
To rage when little children must die of hunger,
when the tables of the rich are sagging with food.
To rage at senseless killing of so many,
and against the madness of the militaries.
To rage at the lie that calls the threat of death
and the strategy ofdestruction -- peace.
To rage against complacency.
To restlessly seek that recklessness
that will challenge and seek to change
human history until it conforms
with the norms of the kingdom ofGod.
And remember the signs of the Christian church have always been --the Lion, the Lamb, the Dove and the Fish (Editor's note. Perhaps the STAG? as well)--but never the chameleon."

Kaj Munk<http://www.kevinburt.typepad.com/> Quoted in EXILES by Michael Frost