Thank you. I will share this quote widely since it captures for me a main emphasis of your meditations:
"The work of our time is twofold: to resist the machinery of injustice and to refuse the spiritual corruption that fuels it. Resistance without reformation of the soul becomes vengeance; contemplation without resistance becomes complicity. We are called to both."
I read most of your posts and sorry that I don't show my appreciation more often. This one inspired me to respond ... but I've been reading for some time and thank you for your dedication and your insights
Thank you. I am new to your meditations and reading today's post resonates for me with Luke Kemp's recent study, Goliath's Curse. We most certainly are in collapse. May we rise in community preserving the commons and shrinking the divide between the few (very few) and the many (very many). Love has everything to do with it.
"The civil rights movement was never just about access; it was about belonging. It was about recognizing that democracy is not an institution but a covenant, a shared promise to honor the image of God in one another. " Thank you for this thoughtful comment about the civil rights movement. At 18 I walked with Dr. King in the Selma to Montgomery march and indeed I felt I belonged! It changed my life and set me on the course that at 80 years old, I am still walking. On that march I got a true understanding of honoring the image of God in others.
Thank you—thank you—this is best articulation of the deconstruction of our democracy—the clearest about the values denied and those expressed—I’ve read. It grounds me—and I’m sharing widely. I’m 82 now—and walk heads up into the storm. Choose life—that is my core.
Thank you. I will share this quote widely since it captures for me a main emphasis of your meditations:
"The work of our time is twofold: to resist the machinery of injustice and to refuse the spiritual corruption that fuels it. Resistance without reformation of the soul becomes vengeance; contemplation without resistance becomes complicity. We are called to both."
I read most of your posts and sorry that I don't show my appreciation more often. This one inspired me to respond ... but I've been reading for some time and thank you for your dedication and your insights
Or, if you’re a non believer, change God with goodness…
“And” instead of “or”?
Aren’t goodness believers
believers still? Thanks.
It’s just semantics. Some would never believe in God, however, espouse Godly behaviour/beliefs.
Thank you. I am new to your meditations and reading today's post resonates for me with Luke Kemp's recent study, Goliath's Curse. We most certainly are in collapse. May we rise in community preserving the commons and shrinking the divide between the few (very few) and the many (very many). Love has everything to do with it.
"The civil rights movement was never just about access; it was about belonging. It was about recognizing that democracy is not an institution but a covenant, a shared promise to honor the image of God in one another. " Thank you for this thoughtful comment about the civil rights movement. At 18 I walked with Dr. King in the Selma to Montgomery march and indeed I felt I belonged! It changed my life and set me on the course that at 80 years old, I am still walking. On that march I got a true understanding of honoring the image of God in others.
Thank you—thank you—this is best articulation of the deconstruction of our democracy—the clearest about the values denied and those expressed—I’ve read. It grounds me—and I’m sharing widely. I’m 82 now—and walk heads up into the storm. Choose life—that is my core.
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidofallon/p/a-culture-for-life?
“Resist injustice...
refuse corruption,” says Rev.
Reckoning struggle.
...
Soul “reformation,”
not vengeance, complicity.
Love “reconstruction.”