Radically Rooted Reexamination
A New Radicalism Back to the Root of Things ----------------------------- It was a conversation with a friend that brought up M. Scott Peck, I looked for what I might have written on him in recent years. Here is a piece I wrote. ----------------------------- We are being called to radicalism in the same sense that M. Scott Peck called himself a "radical conservative" - one who goes to the root of things and seeks to conserve that ideal. Sometimes the roots are buried deep beneath the surface. Sometimes they are in plain view. Always, they provide the strength and stability to the life they support. To determine what the radix of the Jesus message is, one must focus on the person, work, and message of Jesus in His context and beyond His context. No one was ever more forgiving; yet no one was ever more brutally truthful. His judgment did not condemn and His forgiveness let no one off the hook of personal or collective responsibility for their choices. It is going to take some r...
