WE ENGAGE IN GOD’S WORK OF SHALOM which involves our bodies and other peoples’ bodies, and continually engages us in Jesus’s body. In the incarnation, God did not just come for our souls but for our bodies. Just as “in the beginning” God made the heavens and the earth as a unified whole, so all of creation is leaning — tending — groaning toward this goal when the heavens and earth will once more be at home with one another.

For Anglicans, we remind ourselves of this every week in the Eucharist. As C. S. Lewis says, “There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”

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