Change is God.

In her Parable series, Octavia Butler develops a fictional theology for the characters in her book that rests on a fascinating idea: Change is God. 

The concept is that God isn’t good or benevolent by nature, and doesn’t have a plan or will. Instead, God is simply change itself — the constant underpinning of everything, since creation, indifferent to human wishes and unstoppable in every way. Change happens always and forever, to everything, whether we want it or not, and the change itself isn’t up to us. All we can do is shape it. The book’s fictional theology is built out from there. 

When I first read Butler’s books, I was captivated by this story device, and I haven’t been able to shake it since. I see change everywhere now, in everything, and I experience it differently each time. Here at Tangle, it’s safe to say we’re in a season of change.