Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CarlMcColman The inclination, legitimate. Hillman: "The bridgeable chasm has become a cosmic void." But if, as he puts it, "the great task of a life-sustaining culture is to keep the invisibles attached," how do we now recover the invisible foundations of a culture so unhinged from the Whole?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 1 Apr 2023

@MattThiessenNT Same on the streets, never mind in the Academy. Let's be honest. It's time for a fresh start. "From time to time, the image of God has to die so not to become an idol. It has to become transparent to transcendence to be renewed." ~ Joseph Campbell

Copy of tweet: Richard Rohr Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up.
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Copy of tweet: Richard Rohr Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up.

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Quoted by@BrianZahnd @Stu0Miller 5/ America, our religion? As Ida Bae Wells noted, “Those who commit the murders write the reports.” For all I know, Charles Parham’s pejorative dismissal of the Azusa revival as a ‘negro camp meeting’ points to the spirit of Pentecost arriving on a slave ship called Jesus. …Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @BerniceKing @marclamonthill We are not alone in suffering a form of supremacist idolatry vanishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality along with the revolutionary renewal in ontological status of humanity and our planet it initiates. Nor are we the only ones the Living God now welcomes.Quoted by@BerniceKing @marclamonthill We are not alone in suffering a form of supremacist idolatry vanishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality along with the revolutionary renewal in ontological status of humanity and our planet it initiates. Nor are we the only ones the Living God now welcomes.Quoted by@BerniceKing @marclamonthill We are not alone in suffering a form of supremacist idolatry vanishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality along with the revolutionary renewal in ontological status of humanity and our planet it initiates. Nor are we the only ones the Living God now welcomes.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Dan_Bowdoin 3/ If folk are going to go to church, my young pastor tells me, Easter's the day. A recent promotion has me co-ordinating our prayer ministry, so we decided to put a flyer inside our care package for Easter attendees. The heaven of earth, a passionate, local love affair, I find.Quoted by@Dan_Bowdoin 3/ If folk are going to go to church, my young pastor tells me, Easter's the day. A recent promotion has me co-ordinating our prayer ministry, so we decided to put a flyer inside our care package for Easter attendees. The heaven of earth, a passionate, local love affair, I find.