We are countercultural when we live as people aware of the entire picture, when we counter the pervasive individualism that bids us to look no further than our own homes or schedules or priorities. We are countercultural when we testify to the radical work of the Cross in the world and in our hearts, which exchanges our guilt for grace, our ashes for beauty, and sorrow for joy. We are countercultural when we see the startling colors of his sovereign work in our own stories and know that it is only a small glimpse of the magnificent work God is weaving through all of time.


Jill Carattini, “Slice of Infinity”, June 4th, 2007, RZIM