Nah ist Und schwer zu fassen der Gott. Wo aber Gefahr ist, wichst Das Rettende auch. ~ Friedrich Holderlin, Patmos Near and hard to grasp is the God. But where danger is, grows also that which saves. ~ Friedrich Holderlin, Patmos
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Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Remember.9:16 AM · Jan 27, 2024 Photograph of cover of: And the Witnesses Were Silent The Confessing Church and the Persecution of the Jews By Wolfang Gerlach Granslated and edited by Victoria J. Barnett
@brianmclaren Baptist Metz: “Will we actually allow [Auschwitz] to be the end point, the disruption which it really was, the catastrophe of our history, out of which we can find a way only through a radical change of direction achieved via new standards of action?" The answer, clearly, was no.
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Copy of tweet here: When religious culture has become complacent, when it has taken its symbols and myths too literally, when its understanding of God is too narrow, the dynamic forces in the God archetype turn against the constructs of religion and overturn them.~David Tacey Gita 4:7-8 Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ; For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.