There are buoyant powers of healing at work in the world that do not depend on us, that we need not finance or keep functioning and that are not at our disposal. — Walter Brueggemann
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Walter Brueggemann
Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.
Read more ›Simone Weil
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it. — Simone Weil
Walter Brueggemann
We have privy information about God's intent for the world; and since then, we are marked men and women bearing a secret vision the world cannot tolerate. But isn't it great to know it and to be invited to live it?!
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God is at the breaking points in human community. — Walter Brueggemann
Denise Levertov
And when it was claimed The war had ended, it had not ended. — Denise Levertov
Walter Brueggemann
The world is God's and it will not fall apart. The new age which the Lord has begun cannot be driven out or held back. The church need not live out of fear as though the gospel were not true. It is destined to live toward freedom, toward the pain of the world, toward the hurt of the world, toward the joy of the world—the hurt and pain the world does not understand and the joy the world does not anticipate. As he left he reminded the church that we are able to risk much because we are safe. We may need to focus much on shalom as a task, but it begins at the table as assurance. — Walter Brueggemann
Walter Wink
The issue, then, is not social struggle versus inner change, but their orchestration together so that both occur simultaneously. The transformation of society and persons can begin at either end. The early church began from the pole of steadfastness in prayer and the refusal of idolatry, manifesting that hypomone which the Book of Revelation regards as the highest Christian virtue. It is usually somewhat limply rendered "patient endurance," but it is in fact closer to "absolute intransigence," "Unbending determination," "an iron will," "the capacity to endure persectution, torture, and death without yielding one's faith." It is one of the fundamental attributes of nonviolent resistance.
Read more ›Ken Sehested
The call of Jesus to abandon homes, families and land is not the imposition of a new “holiness” code, as if material reality is impure and must be spurned in the quest for the “purity” of spiritual life. Rather, his charge is to recognize the way normal security arrangements—homes, which provide private sanctuary from physical threat; families, which were the basic means of economic production in ancient societies; and land, the pivotal measure of wealth—distract us from the true spirituality of shared resources. The only lasting security is mutual security. Whereas the roots of terrorism lie in the hoarding of sanctuary, economic production and land ownership. But to get there requires a radical reorienting of our minds and hearts. This is what it means to get saved.
Read more ›Suzanne Jurmain
When a friend counseled him to “do try to moderate your indignation, and keep more cool,” abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison responded, “I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice to melt!” — Suzanne Jurmain