@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. …
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Copy of tweet thread beginning here: Be A King @BerniceKing CHALLENGE: Before sharing another quote from my father or asserting what he would stand for or against today, read #LetterFromBirminghamJail and comment on this tweet with something you learned. Share this challenge. Letter: africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html Photograph of Dr. King in Birmingham Jail "If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." He was right. A fresh 21stC. start, then?
@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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