“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
I’ve always loved this line from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple. It’s startling to think of God as “pissed off.” But wouldn’t any artist be upset by a passerby who doesn’t notice the beauty they’ve created?
For 10 years, I worked as a chaplain on a college campus. The route I walked to many of my meetings took me...
