Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@lukeburgis Here, Pir Vilayat Khan basically says it. Yet within a Christic horizon, authenticity means more: submitting to the purification through which we become who and what we truly are in Christ, fully alive through cruciform communion, resurrection and the renewal of all things.

Painting of cross and beneath, calligraphy reading, "Purify yourself by the power of authenticity."
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Painting of cross and beneath, calligraphy reading, "Purify yourself by the power of authenticity."

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 Aug 2026

end/ This, then, is inaugurated immortality: not endless extension of life as the possession of an isolated mortal self, but participation now in a Life death cannot exhaust—being ripening toward its intended fullness, meaning bearing fruit, resurrection becoming present tense.

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Quoted byIn the end, the mystery of Christ is this: evil exposed, judged, and overcome; ordinary creaturely life transfigured through a vivifying communion with the living God; Creation's broken relations healed; all things made new in the fullness of peace for which they were created.