@RNS @NWirzba If rude facts hereabouts hold a lesson, it's likely the truth, sharp as a dentist's probe, that 'just vote' is liberal for 'thoughts and prayers' and, similarly, that hopeful religion and political science are core drivers of, as distinct from solutions to, the global polycrisis.
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Copy of tweet here: and James 2:17: "In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." Jim Wallis: "Jesus didn’t say, “Blessed are the peace-lovers.” He said, “peace-makers.” Italian proverb: "It is not enough to aim. You must hit."
@AimeTim 2/ Ultimately, praying isn't enough. Only so far as we actively participate in the radical indigeneity of a form of hope whereby we and the world neighbor one another, do we truly come home to the Resurrection Body of our salvation. Homemaking as homecoming, with better weather.
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to @brianmclaren 2/ Gutiérrez: "The preferential options for the earth and the poor are inseparable from each other.” Castillo: “To be understood as central to Christian reflection and action, the relationship between these concerns and the mystery of salvation must be made evident." When salvation means removal from the earth to a heavenly home, then our home is abandoned to the assaults of those whose ultimate concern is neither heaven nor earth, but the power and wealth of their particular households. These households drain heaven and earth of what used to be called their “glory” - their energy, their beauty, their disclosiveness, and their adequacy to the needs of the whole. This makes for lousy weather. Catherine Keller I was much taken by your observation, "Hope is born when love goes to work," as a corollary to Gibran: "Work is love made visible." I'm curious if you're alert to the 'messianic-hope-come-to-ground' enfleshed in America's prophetic earthwork movement?