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@B__Daily @RizomaSchool To confess incarnation here is to rupture the myth of separation that undergirds capitalism's bastard substitution of abstractions for material realities. It is to hear the prophet’s cry: you are bound together, and the judgment is that you cannot unbind what God has woven.

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“After Whiteness, An Education in Belonging’ by Willie James Jennings.  “The colonial form of greed aimed to destroy a  communal metaphysic grounded in sharing, mutual ownership, interpenetrating uses of goods and services; bartering, buying, selling, borrowing, and ‘exchanging all woven in relationships extended over time, relationships that were themselves enveloped in stories that gave rationale and meaning to such  activities. Such communalism were not utopias, nor were they immutable, but they were powerful ways of thinking ~~ the one in the many and the many in the one.

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Copy of tweet thread here: Allt-text for next image begins here due to space limits: “After Whiteness, An Education in Belonging’ by Willie James Jennings. “The colonial form of greed aimed to destroy a communal metaphysic grounded in sharing, mutual ownership, interpenetrating uses of goods and services; bartering, buying, selling, borrowing, and ‘exchanging all woven in relationships extended over time, relationships that were themselves enveloped in stories that gave rationale and meaning to such activities. Such communalism were not utopias, nor were they immutable, but they were powerful ways of thinking ~~ the one in the many and the many in the one. Continued with alt-text in next image...

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But the goal of the colonialist whether trader, explorer, missionary, merchant, or soldier - was to reduce the ‘many to the one as a point of negotiation, ‘management, conversion, and profit.  ‘The goal manifested in every colonial site was to  ‘move people slowly but clearly from any kind of group  thinking about their wants and needs to thinking like an individual who could enter into exchange over  goods and services guided by a rationality freed from communal obligation except at the level of volition. Such people would form connection through capital and perform a relationally woven first and foremost in utility and aiming at profit. Exchange networks need not be personal, need not be communal, need not be storied, need not suggest long-term obligation or relationship, need not even require names or identities. They only require items and money, that is, commodities.”
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ttps://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1469072626018488321 [First part of alt-text attached to previous image] But the goal of the colonialist whether trader, explorer, missionary, merchant, or soldier - was to reduce the ‘many to the one as a point of negotiation, ‘management, conversion, and profit. ‘The goal manifested in every colonial site was to ‘move people slowly but clearly from any kind of group thinking about their wants and needs to thinking like an individual who could enter into exchange over goods and services guided by a rationality freed from communal obligation except at the level of volition. Such people would form connection through capital and perform a relationally woven first and foremost in utility and aiming at profit. Exchange networks need not be personal, need not be communal, need not be storied, need not suggest long-term obligation or relationship, need not even require names or identities. They only require items and money, that is, commodities.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 Jul 2025

@PageauJonathan 25/ This is where the peaceable kingdom and radical neighborliness meet as participatory depth within a democratic eschatology. Peace here is no neutrality, but fidelity to a radically relational state of being, marked by nonviolence as the fullest expression of integration.

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6/ Acceleration, as such, may be the very form grace takes in our time—dissolving illusions of control and separateness, revealing the vast, dynamic field of mutual becoming where motion and stillness, contemplation and action, heaven and earth converge.

7/ This recognition shifts contemplation from skin-bound interiority—a private act—to a participatory encounter with the intercarnational field we never truly left. The sacred is mutual. The Christic pattern was always here and flowing. Only now are we learning to perceive it.

8/ A new grammar of divine presence unfolds: not interruption, but indwelling; not static belief, but the choreography of Spirit through time. Peace is no longer stillness, but harmony in motion—a dynamic equilibrium arising when we align with the deeper streams of existence.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 6/ Acceleration, as such, may be the very form grace takes in our time—dissolving illusions of control and separateness, revealing the vast, dynamic field of mutual becoming where motion and stillness, contemplation and action, heaven and earth converge. 7/ This recognition shifts contemplation from skin-bound interiority—a private act—to a participatory encounter with the intercarnational field we never truly left. The sacred is mutual. The Christic pattern was always here and flowing. Only now are we learning to perceive it. 8/ A new grammar of divine presence unfolds: not interruption, but indwelling; not static belief, but the choreography of Spirit through time. Peace is no longer stillness, but harmony in motion—a dynamic equilibrium arising when we align with the deeper streams of existence.

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Quoted by@RizomaSchool 8/ This is why the poor stand at the leading edge of the eschaton. They disclose the truth the rest of us spend fortunes avoiding—that the world is remade at the point where our power ends and God’s coherence begins, where cosmic transfiguration has its earliest foothold.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RDGStout Seems scarcely any Christian since Jesus has matched the political acumen of St. John Chrysostom—his perception as piercing as his critique unflinching. That said, greed enthroned against covenantal balance is a planetary, transcultural verdict: Empire's idol, the world's curse.Quoted by@RDGStout Seems scarcely any Christian since Jesus has matched the political acumen of St. John Chrysostom—his perception as piercing as his critique unflinching. That said, greed enthroned against covenantal balance is a planetary, transcultural verdict: Empire's idol, the world's curse.