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@SherPoint 9/ "How can I announce the good news of reconciliation unless I am that?" (Nouwen) These days I’m wholly devoted to a small, rural, conservative congregation, the sublime Christian love of my church family and the supernal beauty of deeply prayerful, intensely corporate faith.

Painted image of ‘tribal’ cross with calligraphy reading: Grace be with y’all. 1 Timothy 6:21 Hope in the Grove Baptist Church Cottage Grove, OR
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Painted image of ‘tribal’ cross with calligraphy reading: Grace be with y’all. 1 Timothy 6:21 Hope in the Grove Baptist Church Cottage Grove, OR

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Aug 2022

@noonessleep 4/ Which is all very well. But, truth be told, relatively few give two cahoots to the gilded-edge of esoteric metaphysics - a base truth emblematic of high-culture consciousness as strangely obtuse to the honest needs of common folk. There's always churchgoing, for example.

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Quoted by@AStratelates @suzania end\ But few are called to advanced, contemplative, psychospiritual rabbit holes. Most believers—and pastors—are simply trying to live faithfully and know scripture a little more deeply. However partial or flawed their efforts, there's immense dignity, grace and mercy there.Quoted by@poetinbabylon I went super normie, too! Hanging with a tiny, folksy, intensely local church. Wonderfully loving and, relatedly, fervently sincere and studious. I adore them. Among lots to report, I find the esoteric-exoteric unicity of spirited prayer shared aloud and corporately, uber woo.