In this time of violent passage forms of the racial myth, with their intimations of the miracoulous and mysterious, have arisen to give us hope. The result -injustice, unhumanity, genocide assassination- reveal the inadequancy of this way out of our deep anxiety. impotent, too, is the traditional wisdom enshrined in the liturgies of the church, for christians worship has been demonized, transmuted from a witness against us to a means of our self-justification. In order to lead us in creating a new society, in some time yet to come, the christian litugy of word and sacrament must be revivified, purged of its demonic traits filled again with the qualities that it is supposed to have.