"Americans are living in an era when efforts to forge a new national identity [MLK's “beloved community”] are directly confronting deeply entrenched national myths rooted in white supremacy. We are in the midst of what amounts to America’s Third Reconstruction." - Peniel Joseph
@UniteThePoor 'Bottom up'? "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Here, affirmation of the galvanizing power of a universal, resurrective, 'top down', *planetary* turn, corroborating the fundamentally American character of a ‘Third Reconstruction' period announced by USA-based @UniteThePoor
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet The major legacy, perhaps? Call it a Global Reckoning for the Nordic Christ, but German and Jewish post-Shoah theologians are largely responsible for the rebirth and recognition of messianism as a credible, concrete, modern, planetary phenomenon. Quote Tweet 2/ “When Jesus proclaims that the kingdom of God is 'at hand', he is not looking into the future in a temporal sense; he is looking into the heaven of the present. The kingdom does not 'come' out of the future into the present. It comes from heaven to earth..." #juergenmoltmann Image of stylized cross with calligraphy: One Heaven. One Earth. One Now.