Life on Mars? (Part Two)
Posted: March 25, 2016 Filed under: The Eucharist and Living the Eucharist | Tags: conversion as movement into a new culture, David Bowie "Life on Mars?", Ephesians 1: 7 - 10, ethic of being, John 8: 3 - 11, Life on Mars?, Recapitulation, Recapitulation as theology of atonement, the basis of existence, the source of relationship, Welcoming the alien and the exile, Welcoming the disaffected into the Church Leave a comment“Is there life on Mars?”, asks the late David Bowie. Bowie’s question isn’t about the prospects of extraterrestrial life on the fourth planet from the sun. Bowie’s question can be rephrased in this way: “Is there rational, meaningful life on Earth?” Many of Bowie’s songs were about those who were misfits, the disaffected, and the lonely, wandering outcasts of the greater, “normal” society around them. We have this before us in the first verse of “Life on Mars?”, Read the rest of this entry »