end/ Ultimately, the guide asks what Christian life looks like when New Creation does not remain an article of belief at the far edge of doctrine, but becomes recognizable in the creaturely disciplines by which Kingdom life takes material form, now.
@lukeburgis 18/ The crises facing humanity and the Earth aren't peripheral to the maturation of consciousness; they are its crucible. The demand for justice is indivisible: the human wound and the planetary wound constitute a single, primal betrayal—ontic and moral—judged by the same light.
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