Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@islam_texts Thank you for that. In the Christian tradition, 'sins of speech' are addressed in Prov 26:17-28: "Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart." If the terrorism of gossip defines a universal form, do we also address it, similarly, everywhere?

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 3 May 2023

@KangJesseJames @nealjclark1 Yes, 'gossip' can be "a fire set by hell itself", the primary, everyday means we unconsciously visit great violence upon our world but, equally, the central social locus for a conscious, deliberate alchemy fostering "dwelling in peaceful habitation." Our Word as peace alive. /end

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @ThinkingFaith Universally, speech is understood as subtle architecture—building or breaking the invisible structures we live within. To speak is to shape; to lie or wound is to distort, divide, destroy, desecrate. The common language of a pluriversal practice, then: repairing what is ruptured?Quoted by@ThinkingFaith Universally, speech is understood as subtle architecture—building or breaking the invisible structures we live within. To speak is to shape; to lie or wound is to distort, divide, destroy, desecrate. The common language of a pluriversal practice, then: repairing what is ruptured?Quoted by@CarlMcColman 2/ As it happens, I highlighted that Galatians excerpt with church family last night. Telling, yes, the unicity of Word and this stuff. And it's hardly just the two of us consciously addressing an immense, universal challenge and promise here, is it? Holiness knows no boundaries.