@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.
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Copy of tweet thread: Finally, seeing as all truth is God's truth, no issue should be seen as immediately irrelevant/not worth a thorough treatment by Christians - though these should obviously be some form of strict prioritisation as to what issues are worthy of our time/an extensive consideration.@nick_routledge The 'messianic' or 'paradise gardening' movement fits the bill, addressing everything from the Christological dimensions of modern landrace breeding, to universalizing the Logos from such immediate, localizing, inter-carnational particulars at the planetary epistemological level.
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.
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Large bronze church bell hanging from the branch of an oak tree, with a meadow as backdrop.