@RizomaSchool 4/ This is not virtue-by-deprivation. Poverty is imposed by violent systems. Suffering can deform as easily as transfigure. But in that cruciform space, the human is stripped of the delusion of self-authored scripts, solipsistic autonomy, the fantasy of control as security.
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end/ Neighborliness is not a metaphor. It is the shape of incarnational reality—immediate, relational, mutual. We are already held. What saves us is not ascent but immersion in the river, the rhythm, the Real. The Kingdom is not far. It's what we step into when we inhabit love.
@HumansSQ Thought you might appreciate the way restorative justice in San Quentin figures in @UniteThePoor political theology. This is visionary messianic politics in practice, the stone rejected becoming cornerstone, justice as reconciliation—not retribution’s closure but Kingdom power.
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