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@CACRadicalGrace @blackliturgist Contemplation without action? A fundamental repudiation of reciprocity itself. Existentially-speaking, a defective moral system. Heschel understood: "To do justice is what God demands of every man: it is the supreme commandment, and one that cannot be fulfilled vicariously."

Justice is not an ancient custom, a human convention, but a transcendent demand. Justice is as much a necessity as breathing is, and a constant occupation. The survival of the world is itself a requirement of justice. Righteousness is not just a value; it is God’s part of human life, God’s stake in human history. Justice bespeaks a situation that transcends the individual; historical justice is the illumination of all men, enabling the inhabitants of the world to learn righteousness. Its validity is not only universal, but also eternal. Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Justice is not an ancient custom, a human convention, but a transcendent demand. Justice is as much a necessity as breathing is, and a constant occupation. The survival of the world is itself a requirement of justice. Righteousness is not just a value; it is God’s part of human life, God’s stake in human history. Justice bespeaks a situation that transcends the individual; historical justice is the illumination of all men, enabling the inhabitants of the world to learn righteousness. Its validity is not only universal, but also eternal. Abraham Joshua Heschel

Portrait of Oakland-based, Black, Zen Buddhist, Angel Kyoto Williams, with the following text fragment attached. Love and justice are not two. Without inner change there can be no outer change: without collective change, no change matters. Angel Kyodo Williams
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Portrait of Oakland-based, Black, Zen Buddhist, Angel Kyoto Williams, with the following text fragment attached. Love and justice are not two. Without inner change there can be no outer change: without collective change, no change matters. Angel Kyodo Williams

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 2 Nov 2021

2/ In hindsight, an analogous question might be, ‘What relationship does prophetology have to contemplation?’ Or, dependently, perhaps, ‘Why does the planetary landscape of ‘received’, which is to say ‘dominative’ religious culture, engage so few BIPOC ‘contemplatives'?’

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BrianZahnd 1/ All was good until his finale articulately dismissing the prophetic eschatology of deep incarnation as a form of otherworldly exile from the foreground we call history. @unitethepoor we categorize such takes as shopworn, smooth-tongued shilly-shallying for the status quo.Quoted by@BrianZahnd 1/ All was good until his finale articulately dismissing the prophetic eschatology of deep incarnation as a form of otherworldly exile from the foreground we call history. @unitethepoor we categorize such takes as shopworn, smooth-tongued shilly-shallying for the status quo.Quoted by@lukeburgis end/ Then again, “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that." - @RichardRohrOFMQuoted byRT @nick_routledge: @TheKingCenter Wholeness, yes. We are individually whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. The transcendent kingdom, finally, an Earthly social reality.Quoted by@TheKingCenter Wholeness, yes. We are individually whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. The transcendent kingdom, finally, an Earthly social reality.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Likewise, our cultural evil. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Privatized individuation always was a make-believe project.