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First segment of alt-text for tweet above, of image originally tweeted here: Well, as Rabbi Rami implies, why wait upon ‘a’ messiah? When the gardener John Moriarty observes that “Jesus is our hero of integration,” and that “the Second Coming is but a deeper understanding of the first coming,” he plays counterpoint to Daniel Matt’s claim that “in a sense, the Messiah is fashioned by _our_ [my emphasis] ethical and spiritual activity.” To paraphrase Hillary, it takes an integrating village to raise an integrative messiah. Coincidentally, no matter the limitless network of significance of McLuhan’s ‘global village’, any attempt to give the messianic “a local habitation and a name” will proceed only in so far as its unifying articulation is somatically and inalienably attuned to the genius of a particularized habitat, to the intricate harmony of an integrative coming to wholeness embracing one, and just one, locale.
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First segment of alt-text for tweet above, of image originally tweeted here: Well, as Rabbi Rami implies, why wait upon ‘a’ messiah? When the gardener John Moriarty observes that “Jesus is our hero of integration,” and that “the Second Coming is but a deeper understanding of the first coming,” he plays counterpoint to Daniel Matt’s claim that “in a sense, the Messiah is fashioned by _our_ [my emphasis] ethical and spiritual activity.” To paraphrase Hillary, it takes an integrating village to raise an integrative messiah. Coincidentally, no matter the limitless network of significance of McLuhan’s ‘global village’, any attempt to give the messianic “a local habitation and a name” will proceed only in so far as its unifying articulation is somatically and inalienably attuned to the genius of a particularized habitat, to the intricate harmony of an integrative coming to wholeness embracing one, and just one, locale.

Second segment of alt-text for tweet above, of a text image originally tweeted here: The messianic eco-village will, in other words, be singularly defined by a shared face and a parochial limit. So much for the individual of the savior. Along not unrelated lines, Matt continues: ‘Luria’s teachings resonate with one of Franz Kafka’s paradoxical sayings: “The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival.” * Such, perhaps, is the ineluctable democracy of grace to be unearthed in the Hopi revelation that “we are the ones we are waiting for”, a fundamentally indigenous understanding that the messianic imperative is our ecumenical birthright: — Nick Routledge on November 20, 2009
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Second segment of alt-text for tweet above, of a text image originally tweeted here: The messianic eco-village will, in other words, be singularly defined by a shared face and a parochial limit. So much for the individual of the savior. Along not unrelated lines, Matt continues: ‘Luria’s teachings resonate with one of Franz Kafka’s paradoxical sayings: “The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary; he will come only on the day after his arrival.” * Such, perhaps, is the ineluctable democracy of grace to be unearthed in the Hopi revelation that “we are the ones we are waiting for”, a fundamentally indigenous understanding that the messianic imperative is our ecumenical birthright: — Nick Routledge on November 20, 2009