Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Repost

RT @nick_routledge: @RichardRohrOFM @CACRadicalGrace 1/ Sometimes, someone will tell me that even as they truly value my example, nonetheless 21st century realpolitik is a cage making it impossible, in practice, to emulate the Jesusy radicalism my life inhabits. I get it. It was easier to leave the nets in Francis’ time, I reckon.

Quoted or linked post

Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 Nov 2021

4/ The process may also justify a prejudice that life is in oneself rather than among us and, correspondingly, that quietistic accomodation with global inequity and the fast-track to planetary cataclysm personally suffices as a fully-realized salvation project.

Image attached to this archived post
Image attached to this archived post
View this post’s context →

Context in the archive

Quoted by@leashless The paradox of realpolitik. In the midst of a culture structurally dominated by "wickedness in high places," effective, moral engagement has never been more needed, whereas our freedom to act has never been more constrained. Perhaps only the Eschatological Event clears a way?