Cultural Issues

Some take the view: "Tread softly with cultural issues in the Church" -- that is, cultural issues which do not impinge on faith. Many practices in Africa are, in fact, common Biblical practices -- but would not be socially acceptable to some. My feeling is that one does no one a favour by pussy-footing around such issues for the sake of some people's qualms. It creates an atmosphere of tension, it tends to debase issues to gossip and rumour, and it tends to slip into worldly thinking: the way the world thinks. I think one needs to say: Here are the issues, here is why these things are acceptable within the Church, and here is how we need to discern. Not that one should be insensitive. OBSERVATION: Not all would agree. A more theoretical contemplation in the morning ...