Seed. Salt. Light.
These are very powerful metaphors that the Church has used, for centuries, to describe itself. All these metaphors come from the Gospels. (The Church as the Body of Christ is Pauline.)
Unfortunately for the church, it has forgotten that all three metaphors require self-giving, require emptying, require death...
A seed dies... Salt dissolves... Light burns out.
The Church needs to remember its Crucified and Risen Lord. There is no Resurrection without the Crucifixion.
Reading the Bible inside a Jeepney: Celebrating Colonized and Occupied Peoples' capacity to beat swords into ploughshares; to transform weapons of mass destruction into instruments of mass celebration; mortar shells into church bells, teargas canisters to flowerpots; rifle barrels into flutes; U.S. Military Army Jeeps into Filipino Mass Transport Jeepneys.
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