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RT @nick_routledge: @BretVDB @malcolmguite 1/3 Speech is causal, consequential, covenantal. Our Sages insist that words are not merely sounds but acts of creation whose weight accumulates across time, seeding either resurrection or ruin. Life and death, of persons and worlds, dwell in the power of the tongue.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 6 Jul 2025

@ThinkingFaith Universally, speech is understood as subtle architecture—building or breaking the invisible structures we live within. To speak is to shape; to lie or wound is to distort, divide, destroy, desecrate. The common language of a pluriversal practice, then: repairing what is ruptured?

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @lukeburgis The deepest layer of reality isn't 'stuff' but articulated relation. Spirit is existence in eternal conversation—first cause and final cause voiced as truth sounded. Every truthful word freely spoken aligns us with the Word by which all things cohere and tend toward resurrection.Quoted by@lukeburgis The deepest layer of reality isn't 'stuff' but articulated relation. Spirit is existence in eternal conversation—first cause and final cause voiced as truth sounded. Every truthful word freely spoken aligns us with the Word by which all things cohere and tend toward resurrection.