

Holes
In 1999, Thomas Troeger wrote a book called Preaching While the Church is Under Reconstruction (Nashville: Abingdon, 1999). In it he included a parable about a church whose stained-glass window caved in, and the church could not decide whether or not to replace it. Stuck in indecision, life in that church continued under “the God-shaped hole.” Almost 20 years later, we continue to try to figure out to how be the Church today: what still works and what no longer fits; what v