Article July 30, 1966 Issue

Signs of the Times

Kenneth L. Wilson

Christian Herald

The Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Wilson Executive Editor, Christian Herald New York, New York

Today in history we are in some very self-conscious ... years, faith-wise.... These may be the transition years between the verities of spiritual childhood and the verities of spiritual maturity, at least for those who have any inclination or any need to go from one to the other.

So it is that against our ideas of God, our hopes and fears, theology and/or atheology are surging as they have not for a long time. There was an inevitability that a Bishop Robinson remind us ... that God is nowhere to be seen in orbit. To have ever assumed that God was "up there," pointed to by our church steeples and our lifted eyes, ... simply didn't square with the space age—and to say that we never meant it that way in the first place doesn't altogether cover our embarrassment. As some have pointed out, Robinson-type ideas are not new; the same things were discussed in seminary bull-sessions thirty years ago. The point is that the Bishop and others have made the ideas discussable in church—heretofore the last place in the world where one could inquiringly and congenially and safely discuss religion.

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