
Microcosm,
microcosm,
wherefore art thou
microcosm?
Thus said that little Shakey voice within me, the light of whom I thoroughly snuffed a moment later.
But my bizarre inner messing about with Mr. Speare got me thinking about TWU.
What is it like to be in the world and not of it? Do we know at TWU? We're clearly not in the world, but I'm hard pressed to see how we're terribly different as whole on a university-wide basis. We have inordinate numbers of unhealthily post-modern- PMists; from these spring pacifists galore, allowing for the celibate breeding of the sheltered and weak, the hopelessly detached... yet what is our response to this?
Demonstrations in the streets? A campain to reach out to others? G-8 bombings? Getting social scientists hopelessly drunk? A decent counterpart to the pro-abortion rallies we find at the University of Bacculian Copulation?

I wish!
Are we in despair?
GKC said, "Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy."
Look closely for the evidence of the Christian Response from our collective Christian Culture. Where we ought to have the answers -where we really ought to have great answers- you can look in the petrie dish and see over-intellectualized rubbish, claimed by odd people, then misapplied. Help to the needy, not to our neighbour. Worse is a certain whiff of atmosphere not unique to our society, perhaps, but with no place at TWU; this atmostphere contains a collective whine: about relationships, faithless cries regarding God's 'love' and 'answers,' the future, family, the economy, red commy pinko lefties, existentialism; turning in and in and in and in and in and in.
Dante called that hell.
So do I.
But within Trinity, there is hope. All of Satan's array forces cannot crush it, yea though these sad and sorry excuses for an effective Christian Culture remain.
We have a response; we have an effective, joyous, world-changing idea and ideal within our heart:
Enthusiasm.
'En-Theos.'
In God.
Faith born anew, child-like out of strength, the divine paradox reawakened within our hearts.
Pray that we might have the privelege.