A song by Sydney Carter
Your holy hearsay
is not evidence:
give me the good news
in the present tense.What happened
nineteen hundred years ago
may not have happened:
how am I to know?The living truth
is what I long to see:
I cannot lean upon
what used to be.So shut the Bible up
and show me how
the Christ you talk about
is living now.
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The Present Tense
