@CTmagazine 7/ The question is not merely how we wait, but what our waiting becomes. If redemption is not yet, its grammar is made in the present tense. Rightly shaped, waiting does work. Hence the hinge: the heaven of earth not as an elsewhere or futurity but immediacy, pivot, entanglement.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 4/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1962916374633971848 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis 4/ Non-retributive justice does not succeed by tactic. It works because it consents to the mystery at the core of creation: our inescapable entanglement aligned with the hidden architecture of reality through which all life coheres—how things actually are—like it or not. t.co/nyTzgGKuM9
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 7/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1959442597094826408 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 7/ To inhabit incarnation is to live that entanglement. God-with-us is not escape from biology but its depth—the political and embodied converging. Where Empire brings extraction and genocide, incarnation brings covenant and community; where death, resurrection breaking through. t.co/eF0cdoC7Hz
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Sabine VanderLinden Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: your point Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1965750038178738607 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Sabine VanderLinden: your point about physical embodiment being key to consciousness really makes me think about how much we might be missing in our understanding of awareness itself.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge referring to Catherine Keller Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: To borrow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1947359631602553151 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SabineVdL @Plough To borrow Catherine Keller's term, consciousness isn’t a lonely spark but the local flare of an 'intercarnational' self—a fully entangled, co-evolving nexus through which the universe individuates, feels, thinks, and then diffuses again into the wider weave of relations. t.co/VhQx1Al2hd
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: And of course Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. “The idea that consciousness could develop from AI is based on a misunderstanding. Our consciousness is not an abstract state that occurs on an arbitrary substance, like the relationship between the state of frozenness and the substance of liquid.” your point about physical embodiment being key to consciousness really makes me think about how much we might be missing in our understanding of awareness itself. To borrow Catherine Keller's term, consciousness isn’t a lonely spark but the local flare of an 'intercarnational' self—a fully entangled, co-evolving nexus through which the universe individuates, feels, thinks, and then diffuses again into the wider weave of relations. And, of course, to admit that such intelligence, available to all, is ultimately collective, non-local and interdependent means we must be prepared to change more than just our commonsense understanding of the universe, for the implications are staggering.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 6/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1959441892757672322 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 6/ Every collapse unveils the alternative. Incarnation is apocalypse—love unveiled as the law of reality. Empire is unmasked, solidarity revealed, and history itself bent toward liberation. Entanglement is exposed as the condition of being itself. t.co/MGa6ElDryb
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 31/ Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1946374240875463113 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @PageauJonathan 31/ The Kingdom is not a fixed arrival but an intensification of presence. This is the eschaton as co-creation: not spectacle to behold, but fidelity enfleshed. The Reign of God arises not from ideology, but from entangled communion. Incarnational integration in motion.
Open original document1/17 In a world unraveling through collapse, escalation, and acceleration, incarnation returns—not as ornament, old metaphysical puzzle, or past tense, but as eschatological hinge: a sunburst of revelation fracturing time and irradiating the world.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Richard Rohr Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: Richard Rohr Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1532143676960321536 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM In reality, it didn't take long at all for 'the Church' to effectively forsake messianic ontology for a religious science of containment. No matter. The involvement of God in history isn't a concept: no religion or system can own the visible and carnal presence of the God-force.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1532146781189918720 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @RichardRohrOFM Clearly, if we have a future, there's a choice to be made. What's it to be, then? A suicidal cataclysm of materialist and religious fetishism, or the world-renewing truth of the Messiah's example and message? The irrecusable catastrophe of the false sacred, or a fresh start?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, two closing bodies Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Excerpt from tweet thread here: Clearly, if we have a future, there's a choice to be made. What's it to be, then? A suicidal cataclysm of materialist and religious fetishism, or the world-renewing truth of the Messiah's example and message? The irrecusable catastrophe of the false sacred, or a fresh start? Some might have us believe otherwise, but the incarnational life isn't rocket science. Rather, a wholly democratic social experience universally accessible through a workaday adventure reconciling and reinvigorating ourselves, the Earth and the Beautiful, in the same breath. The messianic era? Coming home to the transcendent fullness of empirical Earth-bound life, effectively completing a co-evolutionary circuit freeing us to a planetary realm of measureless, enfolded, promise and potential. A new world co-creation, in this realm of existence.
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