When God Hides: The Obligation of Celebration (Esther 9-10) Chris Altrock – July 10, 2016
Disenchanted Faith
Theologian Richard Beck argues that Scooby Doo may be the perfect cartoon for summarizing what life is like for a person of faith these days.[1] I used to watch Scooby Doo when I was up early getting ready for our 6 AM junior high basketball practice. Most episodes unfolded the same way. Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, Velma and Scooby Doo either stumbled into or were called into a mystery. Some ghost, monster or supernatural creature was causing chaos. The kids and the dog investigated. And, after getting the daylights scared out of them, they finally figured out that the creature wasn’t a spook. It was a human pretending to be a creature in order to scare people away from his or her criminal hijinks. Once the gang realized this, the authorities were called in and the person was arrested. And the criminal almost always lamented in the end, “And I would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids!” What started seemingly as an instance of supernatural activity was unmasked and turned out to be an instance of human criminal activity.Read More »When God Hides: The Obligation of Celebration (Esther 9-10) Chris Altrock – July 10, 2016