Public Theology
Someone has been at work on the Domino’s sign on National Road on Richmond’s West Side. Originally touting “FREE BROWNIES” (as Stephanie points out, what does it say about your pizza if you have to give away brownies to get people to buy it?), the anagrammer has rearranged the text as follows:
This proclamation raises several trenchant theological questions. Is the anagrammer sin-free, perhaps asserting, with George Fox, that Christ has saved us from our sin, rather than in our sin, so that a perfection akin to that of Adam’s before he fell is a reality?
Or is this a latter-day Ranterism raising its head, insisting that we can sin free of any consequence?
And note the broken ‘O’: was the anagrammer just clumsy? Or does it signify the broken condition of humanity, a circle that is only made whole again in Christ?
And, most importantly, is this the work of an ESR or Bethany student or student(s)? Tonda (also here) does not admit involvement. There are quite a few more capable of such hijinx… you know who you are.