Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

Morning at my makeshift plant nursery nestled in the Sierras, where I once farmed. New hands tend the earth here now—the art, books, icons of old have been swept away like autumn leaves. Yet one bronze bell remains, a faithful sentinel to seeking the Kingdom among furrows.

Large bronze church bell hanging from the branch of an oak tree, with a meadow as backdrop.
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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Jun 2022

@sidewayskoyote @gracie88888 @RizomaSchool Depends how you identify. I'm all for fully grounding the Catholic communion. Every resurrection is local, after all. Peter Maurin: "The future of the Church is on the land." This, the front page of the Calaveras Enterprise (big paper, small county) June 2020 #CatholicWorker

Front page of the major newspaper in Calaveras County describing the Catholic Worker foundations of the Calaveras County Poor People's Campaign Farm
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Quoted by@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 16/ Which is why faithful earthcare is redeemed creatureliness in practice. Not symbolically. Literally. Bodies need food. Soil needs tending. Animals need sheltering. The Kingdom doesn’t arrive despite these facts—it arrives through faithfulness to them.