The Faith of a Mockingbird by Matt Rawle

Author:Matt Rawle
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

SWEET RECOGNITION

The Finches’ neighbor Miss Maudie is famous for baking cakes. After Tom’s trial, Miss Maudie invites Jem, Scout, and Dill over for a cake baked especially for them, in honor of Atticus’ efforts for Tom.

If we could just walk around in someone else’s skin, we would have a better perspective on truth. The beauty of Atticus’ famous phrase is that skin—the color of it, that is—is literally the root of Maycomb’s “usual disease” of racism. But if we could change the phrase for us today—if instead of walking around in “someone else’s skin,” perhaps we should be challenged to walk around in “someone else’s economic state”—would that experience alter the way we work toward reconciliation? Or walk around in someone else’s gender or orientation or language? Even though Atticus believes the courts are where truth is proclaimed, the church is the place where we celebrate and are challenged by the Incarnation—God putting on skin in order to save the skin we’re in. God “put on” humanity so that we might know how to live, and die, so that we might dwell in God’s abundant love and offer that love to others.

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