"Quote" of the Week

"If Christianity is an historical religion, it follows that all history is God's history. The succession of the years is not merely an unravellable tangle of events without general meaning. History witnesses to a divine purpose and is moving towards a divine goal, what Charles Kingsley called 'the strategy of God'...History set in the context of a theology of 'beginnings' and 'ends' enables the Christian to see something of the true 'thickness' of events. He can see them not only in their contemporary setting, not only in their setting in human history, but in relation to 'In the beginning God', and 'I will come again'" (John Briggs, God, Time and History).