@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.
@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."
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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
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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