Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@stewartdantec Bailie: “One of the many paradoxes with which Christians must wrestle is the fact that, by its very nature, a “pro-Christian” position is antithetical to the spirit of the gospel.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Jun 2021

@pmkofahl @wjlanesr @LauraRbnsn @smith_jeniffer I so wholeheartedly agree, Matthew. You are right. Semiotic snafus, thassaall. To be Xian is to be fundamentally corporate. As for the limits of the Church? It no more owns the Gospels than Jeff Bezos my soul. Truly, ours can only ever be a universal love, universally loved.

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Quoted by@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM “We are waiting, not for a Godot, but for another - doubtless very different - St. Benedict.” - #AlasdairMacIntyre Perhaps we find an answer in commitment to a greater common good, beyond the parochial insularity of nation-states and religions. Our common good is planetary good.