“Several times in the New Testament we are reminded that the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. Usually that is taken as a reference to Jesus, his rejection by his people and his vindication in resurrection and ascension… We have discovered that the stones rejected by the world become the cornerstones of God’s Kingdom. Sometimes that rejection is accidental, sometimes deliberate; either way, God is renewing the Church by populating the Kingdom with those who, like Israel in Babylon, discover that God is sometimes closer to us in exile than in the comforts of the Promised Land.”
–Samuel Wells, “On the Edge of Life,” in Liturgy on the Edge, pg. 33
