Calling it. Thomas Merton, American: "There is in the English school less blood and anguish, less hellfire and horror than is to be found in any other school of Christian mysticism, and this, of course, is how it should be."
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Statement from the The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem condemning 'the flagrant attack on St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Ramallah'.
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Geometric oak mandala with text fragment, "Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace." Proverbs 3:17
@iyad_elbaghdadi 1/ Correct, I suspect. So, given that politics can no longer save us, what next? How about tackling the unholy mess in the US, Palestine, India and elsewhere, concurrently and concomitantly, as one? Differing stories, cultures and contexts, yes. But the root pathology? Identical.
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Tweet: And, more fully, a universal theology. How could any one culture, creed or nation be capable of the project? Simply stated, the sunburst of the messianic majorly concerns world-reality, not the minor of religious nationalism. It has to be true everywhere. And subtweet: How could the true measure of planetary awareness ever amount to anything other than a fundamentally universalist experience and perspective of the world, its cultures, its peoples? We are united in a single garment of destiny, after all.