end/ "When thought of geopolitically, the ramifications of the coming of the Messiah would have to extend to all nations, a point that is regularly supported by reference to the verse "Strangers shall stand and pasture your flocks, aliens shall be your plowmen and vine-trimmers."
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Copy of tweet and subtweet here: The great majority of the tens of thousands of transplants I raise, support Oregon's refugee farmers. Today, then, a second trailer of winter transplants heads toward Rohingya, Ukrainian, Rwandan and DRC Congolese family farmers in Boring, OR. So love the team @OutgrowingHungr Image of Adam ED with Outgrowing Hunger picking up thousands of vegetable transplants from the nursery Subtweet Delighted to be once again placing thousands of world-class transplants with refugee allies farming close to Portland, OR. This morning, we packed their van and trailer with starts. 3 hours later, up the freeway, refugee farmers were getting them into the ground. Love our team! Four photographs of nursery tables, transplants in transport, African refugee welcoming committee at the Boring site, transplanting in the field.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Including image originally without alt-text, now included here: For the record, Michael Kirwan SJ. Image of Kirwan quoting Agamben: given the by now unstoppable decline of the nation-state and the general corrosion of traditional political-juridical categories, the refugee is perhaps the only thinkable figure for the people of our time and the only category in which one may see today – at least until the process of dissolution of the nation-state and of its sovereignty has achieved full completion – the forms and limits of a coming political community. It is even possible that, if we want to be equal to the absolutely new tasks ahead, we will have to abandon decidedly, without reservation, the fundamental concepts through which we have so far represented the subjects of the political…and build our political philosophy anew starting from the one and only figure of the refugee.
@jamespoulos @AldoButtazzoni Khezr, the planetary prophetic prototype of homecoming? A different question, then. If the sacred, great and dangerous earth turns out to be Paradise Regained, how might homecoming to the catholicity of the heaven of earth, uplift our daily lives?
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Only superficially, then, does ‘home-making’ refer to refining our external attachment to people, place and things, and the broad array of technes supporting the outer forms of settling in. Ultimately, homemaking amounts to accepting a profound invitation to explore the most vital coherence of our senses and thoughts in congruence with the embrace of Nature, striving for a depth where the form of our emerging growth is brought into rhythm with the concealed order of creation. It is, in other words, an invitation to friendship with our own essential nature. Such is the ground of primal affection mediated by Beauty. “The experience of the beautiful,” as Hans-Georg Gadamer describes it, “is the invocation of a potentially whole and holy order of things.”