Noctaphobia

I was tickled by this bit of dark speech from the August issue of Feeding Together, put out by the Reformed Alliance of the UCA.

First Speaker: "What about this one? How many 'progressive' liberals does it take to change a lightbulb?"

Second Speaker: "What do you mean 'How many?' That's the wrong question. We're not here to change the lightbulbs, but to affirm their lightedness.

"There are many different ways they express their inner light, and if one of them is through darkness who are we to say that's wrong? That's being noctaphobic and intolerant of the wider spectrum.

"We need to learn to embrace the darkness and see the light within it, to move with them through it, finding that darkness is a new expression of lightedness that is to be valued and accepted as one of many ..."