Bandersnatch

Erika Morrison's BANDERSNATCH is organized around four ideas viewed through Jesus' life: Avant-Garde, Alchemy, Anthropology, and Art. These four themes reveal a different aspect of God's “unorthodox creativity.”

I love the way Morrison is encouraging us to find liberation from rigid religion that would attempt to put God in a box and keep us in a cage.

Favorite quotes:

“Glory is already down everywhere, waiting to be invited into our nothing. We cannot escape the encompassing presence of God because it fills the final bit of everything right down to the last atom in a shaft of sunlight receding below the edge of the globe.”

“Here's how you tell the difference: If a religious system dominates or powers over you and tries to manage your behaviors or beliefs, it's a human-made system. If a system is designed to come under you and support the growth of your love with Christ and your rare, creative, contributing self—if it seeks to support the health of your heart first, not manage your behaviors or beliefs—then it's manifested from the Spirit.”