5/ This is to say God enters conflictual time, the architecture of the broken, the exploited, the crucified. The groaning of all flesh—microbes, forests, cities, peoples—resounds as the very site of divine solidarity woven into creaturely suffering and evolutionary striving.
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Copy of tweet thread here: 15/ That’s why for Nund Rishi, the political was not adjacent to the spiritual—it was its form. Justice wasn’t ideology, but divinity lived at ground level. Not thunder from heaven, but the emergence of the Real from underfoot. Sahaja was the eschaton made visible. 16/ This wasn’t critique for its own sake. It was incarnation in orchard and word, in bread shared and lives interwoven—experience refusing both abstraction and retreat. His Islam sang with the unlettered, defied landlords, and made justice visible in the rhythms of daily life. 17/ This wasn’t soft resonance. It was structural disruption. Not hovering above politics—but reordering it from below. Ontological messianism means the holy is lived, not legislated. It arises as justice made local, simplicity made durable, presence become political.
21/ Hence Nund Rishi, a farmer himself, called for action, not abstraction. Sahaja was incarnation, the eschaton practiced at ground level. Social concerns trumped religious preoccupations. Paradise was practiced in the vernacular of addressing hunger. Justice was handmade.
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Image of Nick with Ann. B. smiling together at the grafting table.
I’m feeling deeply fed by yesterday’s prop fair in Cottage Grove, not least by the lovely surprise of grafting trees with Ann B, who came to the fair to pick up trees on behalf of the Cottage Village, a new, permanent tiny-home, ‘eco-village’ for low-income residents she now calls home. This project has been established by ‘Grovers’ seeking practical, grounded, humane, permanent solutions to homelessness in their community.
I was greatly struck by the quality of the scion choices, and conversation, Ann brought to the grafting table - traits I repeatedly and refreshingly encounter among low-income folks settling such communities, it seems. Frankly, her perspicacity, intelligence and no-nonsense clarity about the nature and significance of things, echo a soul wisdom I commonly encounter among low-income folk … [deletion for alt-text limit]](/media/1932886898248462385-GtL-YtqbMAEwspS.jpg)
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Copy of Facebook post here: Image of Nick with Ann. B. smiling together at the grafting table. I’m feeling deeply fed by yesterday’s prop fair in Cottage Grove, not least by the lovely surprise of grafting trees with Ann B, who came to the fair to pick up trees on behalf of the Cottage Village, a new, permanent tiny-home, ‘eco-village’ for low-income residents she now calls home. This project has been established by ‘Grovers’ seeking practical, grounded, humane, permanent solutions to homelessness in their community. I was greatly struck by the quality of the scion choices, and conversation, Ann brought to the grafting table - traits I repeatedly and refreshingly encounter among low-income folks settling such communities, it seems. Frankly, her perspicacity, intelligence and no-nonsense clarity about the nature and significance of things, echo a soul wisdom I commonly encounter among low-income folk … [deletion for alt-text limit]