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RT @nick_routledge: @cac_abq How about an honest response to Franciscan sister and theologian Ilia Delio? "If God has already come to us, what are we waiting for? If God has already become incarnate in Jesus what are we waiting for?"

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end/ "If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." - MLK, 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail'

"Jesus was calling for a radical disruption of his religion, a great spiritual migration. A similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion that names itself after Him. - McLaren
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Copy of tweet here: end/ "If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." - MLK, 'Letter from a Birmingham Jail' "Jesus was calling for a radical disruption of his religion, a great spiritual migration. A similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion that names itself after Him. - McLaren

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 21 May 2025

Out walking this morning, a few thoughts on the shocking apocalyptic hopefulness of Rev. 21. @brianmclaren: "That's why Revelation ends with a single word. That word is not WAIT! Nor is NOT YET! or SOMEDAY! It is a word not of ending, but of #NewBeginning. That one word is COME!"

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Quoted byend/ Incarnation is not metaphor but embodied apocalypse: history’s judgment and creation’s rebirth. This is the eschaton: love blazing through soil and species, body and polis, networks and nations—our own flesh and the flesh of the world, revealed as the medium of divine law.Quoted by@trippfuller Greatly treasure your concentrated acuity, brother. What's it to be then? More of the same vanishing the Eternal Gospel from reference in concrete reality along with the revolutionary renewal in ontological status of humanity and our planet it initiates? What are we waiting for?