holy mess

“Jack’s brilliance,” Ms. Hertz added, “and what he passed along to me, is in not worrying about what’s on the page you’re looking at when evaluating a proposal or a manuscript. His brilliance is in hearing the thinking behind the author’s words, inchoate in the holy mess that when I worked for him was usually spread across his office floor. He taught me to find that kernel and to burnish it.”

From the beginning, and for many decades following, it was in fact Christians — first from France, then from Britain, mostly Protestants — who swooped into the Holy Land and made a holy mess.

"And in the middle of all this Theresa May has made the most holy mess of the thing by putting on the table a document that is completely unacceptable."

Of “Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert,” which is nominated for 13 Emmys, Times critic Lorraine Ali wrote: “The show was a collision of religion and theater and pop culture that could have been one holy mess. But by the grace of God, or maybe a great cast and lots and lots of expert staging, a great musical became a great TV production.”

The Manifest Herald newspaper office was about centered on Main Street and we walked into a holy mess.