@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 10/ Humans aren’t outside nature. Separate “solidarity” with the poor from “care” for land and we abandon reality. Any spirituality blessing souls while degrading the conditions of life commits a category error: dissociation mistaken for transcendence, evacuation for salvation.
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1/ Every resurrection is parochial. Where this experience identifies with our immediate habitat, we assume a form of care in which the act of healing and journey of homecoming reveal themselves as one and the same - our primary pathway into Awakening. 3/ Marriages of visionary social projects to visionary agro-ecological projects, in combinations which ‘click’, define functional, justice-based regenerative design. Naturally, such work is inherently localizing or ‘co-evolutionary’. How could it be any other way? Subtweet: @MichaelFakhri the UN special rapporteur on the right to food: “Any hope for justice for all in the United States must address people’s food needs and the food system.” Stuart Haniff, CEO @foodbankrgv: "The truth is, we’re never going to foodbank our way out of hunger." Because the root cause of hunger is inequality, any method of boosting food production that deepens inequality will fail to reduce hunger. Conversely, only technologies that have positive effects on the distribution of wealth, income, and assets, that are pro-poor, can truly reduce hunger. -Miguel Altieri Subtweet: The contemporary 'paradise gardening' or 'prophetic earthwork' movement adds a novel twist, embodying a dynamic reconciliation of path, justice and peace in the natural, immediate sequence of a concrete, native journey into Beauty’s deepest ground. How and why do we garden, then? [Animated image of Green Christ] []
Open original document@Plough @BenQuash 16/ Justice isn't adjacent to beauty—it's beauty's public expression, what beauty looks like in social and ecological form when inner conversion and outer repair converge into coherence. When relations align, the world doesn't just become more ethical; it becomes more luminous.
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and Gutierrez: "History is one." The reality of prophetic earthwork, as such? A fully-enfleshed unicity of salvation, liberation and care of creation constituting the dynamic, integral ecology of deep incarnation, on the move. The Kingdom through, with and on the Earth, in practice. @WelshRev and @HaddenTurner Surprise, Illich avers, is the structure of messianic experience. Checking in with fundamentally Christian homesteaders/farmers/regenerative designers gifts us a wellspring of graced testaments to the manifest fullness, richness and plenitude of New World Creation in practice. Reality-based, practical metaphysics going deeper? Perfect poetry, isn't it? If we have a future, it'll be integral and regenerative - the Wedding of Heaven and Earth, and Earth and Heaven and, at its dynamic, loving heart, marriage and family togethered as an Edenic love affair. Subtweet: 1/2 Dan Castillo is most valuable in clarifying how Francis’ concept of integral ecology “maps onto the levels of liberation delineated by Gutiérrez, while expanding the breadth of concern proper to integral liberation by also encompassing a preferential option for the earth.” We must go further. As such, the advent of the 'prophetic earthwork' movement as a bio-composite communion or convivium of land-based service work. To recalibrate or reintegrate Illich: “The kingdom is an eco-social reality at a transcendental level." I suspect geologian Thomas Berry would paint that as a classic case of 'anthropocentric autism' - a religious compass thoroughly divorced from grounding in Nature's harmony, proportions, integrity and, yes, concretized Christification. Faith profoundly unhinged. Xianity lite. Castillo: "Integral liberation cannot be separated from the process of integral communion." Ellen Davis: "The threefold communion with God, neighbor, and earth properly constitutes Christified space." We are called, in other words, to the salvation of "an ecological conversion." —---------------------- []
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