FISHING WHERE FISH ARE
The words of George McLeod sum up the philosophy of Fishlosophy rather well:
I simply argue
that the cross should be raised
at the center of the marketplace
as well as the steeple of the church.
I am recovering the claim
that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral
between two candles,
but on a cross between two thieves:
on the town's garbage heap:
at a place so cosmopolitan
they had to write His title
in Hebrew and Latin and Greek...
at the kind of place where cynics talk smut,
and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.
Because that is where He died.
And that is what He died for.
And that is what He died about.
That is where the church ought to be
and what the church ought to be about.
