Always pointing beyond himself, ready to get out of the way, finally beheaded by the powers that be, John the Baptizer represents the kind of liberation and the kind of prophecy that we need in our affluent culture.
He is not just free from the system, he is amazingly free from himself. These are the only prophets God can use, the only prophets we can trust.
John the Baptizer seems to tell us that the desert is the only place bare enough, empty enough to mirror our own motives and disguises.
The desert is the prophet to the prophet.
(Richard Rohr, OFM)
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