@oldbooksguy I'm reminded of Don DeLillo: "News is the last addiction before - what?" A media event rescuing our future from the power of propaganda? The 'deus ex machina' of God's coming and arrival?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge; John 12:31 quotation Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: end So / judgment of world / end Owned Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of Tweet: Nick_routledge Nick_routledge and end/ So, how is transcendent intervention at the planetary level revealed? Through the usual channels? Don't be silly. Here, in the radical upheaval of concrete political reality, presenting as a global movement to end poverty, injustice and ecocide, led by the poor. Including image of tweet: Nick_routledge The judgment of the world is now. The ruler of this world will be cast out now. John 12:31 9:37 PM · Feb 23, 2022 from Eugene, OR Quote tweet: Nick_routledge end/ 'Owned' by the substrative deception of an enslaving epistemology fixed into furrows of death? More than likely, yes. What form a planetary circuit breaker, then? World liberation, as disruption and migration of planetary attention span? This time, a renewing network swarm.
Open original document@Dan_Bowdoin Our call, in practice, is to confront the simultaneity of the enormous force of the Zeitgeist and its primary, expressive medium. I wonder what Ellul, so presciently alert to the transcendent significance of wedded spiritual and media environments, would have made of the Web Era.
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Copy of tweet thread here: Jesus provided us with no old or new 'concept' of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God's kingdom himself. “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature. @theccsn Painting-human-synthesis graphic with calligraphy reading, The Interface Is You 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message."