Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

1/3 “The kings would do everything but grieve, for that is the ultimate criticism and the decisive announcement of dismantling.” - Walter Brueggemann, The Practice of Prophetic Imagination.

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Quoted by@Plough The if that honest faith requires and the if that genuine politics requires are the same if: the willingness to mourn what is actually ending, and to find in that mourning not consolation but the crack where the new thing enters. How does a nation learn to sing new songs?Quoted by@BandyXLee1 Our challenge, of course, far greater than politics is equipped to address. Fundamentally, the refusal to lament defines and sustains the consensus of denial and delusion represented in the status quo.Quoted by@moltmannjuergen Brueggeman: "Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs."Quoted by@RichardRohrOFM Pari passu, perhaps the refusal to lament fundamentally defines and sustains the consensus of denial represented in the bastard appeal of the status quo? #WalterBrueggemann again:Quoted by@andrehenry Brueggeman: "Clearly, only those who anguish will sing new songs."Quoted by@JRHunTx @HistoryNed Classic gestures of an interior life in denial.