Sarah Hey: The Fields of Battle, Leave Taking, & a Critique of Everybody [except the revisionists]

Excerpt:

All this time, we’ve been walking along a path, in conversation, as friends and allies. We’ve tried to be clear -- “I want to head over there eventually,” and “I don’t think I want to go there” -- but at some point, we can move no longer together on the same path. It will be time for individuals and groups to move toward their chosen destination -- to take a branch toward the mountains in the East, or toward the forests of the West, or elsewhere entirely. . . . With these hopes, as we watch varying allies tighten their sword belts, shoulder their packs, turn, and walk into the mists of the mountains, or the green mystery of the forests, during a very perilous time of spiritual and church conflict, we take leave with blessing and a hope that “in battle we may yet meet again, though all the hosts of Mordor should stand between.’

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