@TomRicciardone @RichardRohrOFM Central to the Jesus Event: history admits no neutral observers, salvation no private claimants—the first mere pretense, the second pure fantasy. Each moment, the locus where personal and cosmic redemption entangle. Ask the grand questions and we miss the start. Who's hungry now?
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Loyalty, not to law, but truth. Rohr: "The principle is this: we must struggle with the truth in one concrete place—and then universalize from there." McLaren: "People who take this moment seriously take every moment seriously, and these are the people who are ready for heaven."
Earlier in the year, Richard shared the shocking hopefulness of the Bible’s
apocalyptic literature:
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God puts us in a world of passing things where everything changes and
nothing remains the same. The only thing that doesn’t change is change
itself. It's a hard lesson to learn. It helps us appreciate that everything is
a gift. We didn’t create it. We don’t deserve it. It will not last, but while
we breathe it in, we can enjoy it, and know that it is another moment of
God, another moment of life. People who take this moment seriously take
every moment seriously, and those are the people who are ready for
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Copy of tweet here: Loyalty, not to law, but truth. Rohr: "The principle is this: we must struggle with the truth in one concrete place—and then universalize from there." McLaren: "People who take this moment seriously take every moment seriously, and these are the people who are ready for heaven." Earlier in the year, Richard shared the shocking hopefulness of the Bible’s apocalyptic literature: 3/ this moment God puts us in a world of passing things where everything changes and nothing remains the same. The only thing that doesn’t change is change itself. It's a hard lesson to learn. It helps us appreciate that everything is a gift. We didn’t create it. We don’t deserve it. It will not last, but while we breathe it in, we can enjoy it, and know that it is another moment of God, another moment of life. People who take this moment seriously take every moment seriously, and those are the people who are ready for heaven. [2]
@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.
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