After two days of hard rain, I'm back to simple pleasures in the sunshine: the quiet, careful work of shaping what will bear.
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Image of apple tree, pruning ladder, and faithful hound, under blue skies.
@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 21/ Which brings us back to your manifesto naming the ontological scandal that redeemed humans are makers again—not of salvation (that's done) but of new world creation. Not escape from matter but participation in the actual site where God's future inhabits the present.
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Copy of thread here: The latest Social Issues Bulletin is available. This edition, with articles by @TDieppe @HaddenTurner and @JubileeCentre's Dr Paul Mills, examines the complex relationship between evangelical faith and environmental concerns. It also includes a review of the latest bioethical concerns by Dr Calum MacKellar. Dive in at affinity.org.uk/social-issues/the-summer-2025-edition-of-the-social-issues-bulletin-is-available/ We must go further. The Kingdom demands earthbound discipleship, not spectator theology. Jesus the Gardener comes back to return us to creation and to dissolve the world that forgot it—churches and empires alike. The Word must be inhabited, else belief is but betrayal gone pious.