Cruciform lettuce. Weeks ago, a self-directed child dug and saved these garden volunteers, tiny then. Quietly, I carried them forward on the nursery tables. This morning I showed her. She loved it even before she knew it was hers. And, lo, we then planted them in fertile ground.
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Lettuce starts in a wooden nursery flat, colors arranged in the shape of a cross.
@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.