@ShaneClaiborne Deeply inspiring, @DrAshBarker and Dave. And it perhaps bears noting that while the triggers and effects of religio-nationalism are shared and global, so too is its repair. In this regard, the UK appears to bring a peculiar but vital piece to the work of planetary reconciliation.
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· 23/ The entanglement of sacral English nationhood and Abrahamic prophetology runs deeper than most realize. Blake's New Jerusalem names it—not English triumphalism dressed in light, but planetary reconciliation breaking through a particular, historically freighted aperture.
@AimeTim @profntwright end\ In Britain this matters politically. Ecological breakdown and demographic change are being read through fear and nationalist threat. But the deeper possibility is prophetic: land, climate, peoples and faiths drawn toward reconciliation in Britain’s mythic and religious soil.
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Copy of tweet here: end/ Other moderns note Khezr/St. George "might well be induced to reappear as the patron saint of modern militant eco-enviromentalism", representing a trans-cultural, universalist prototype of prophetic earthworker - the co-evolutionary helix of the Heaven of Earth, personified.