Who knew that the required reading nightmare of every college literature student, Kafka’s Metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa into a roach would become the theme for “make me my UCC”? When you join the UCC social networking community, you too can be transformed into one of those dancing bugs who plague the UCC website. Our favorite is the serpent with the crown.
No lie, we couldn’t make that one up. Non UCC friends of ours who believe with some reason that the UCC has long been a bacterial infection in the blood stream of the American church have chimed in with the prophesy in Joel about God’s judgment on an unfaithful people, “Joel 1:4, That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.” Self-revelation is always an amazing phenomenon, and perhaps the UCC website’s infatuation with the bugs as a self-image is more profound than anyone anticipated? We would like to hear from any of you who have made yourselves a UCC bug. What if any effect has it had on your life? Personally some of us have enjoyed a bit more upscale experience when we became a new creature in Christ and joined His body.
David Runnion-Bareford
Executive Director,
Biblical Witness Fellowship
