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Nick Routledge on X: "@trippfuller Our freedom is no more liberatory than the bounds of truth defining it, of course. How, then, does a fully planetary embrace map onto the levels of liberation delineated by specific world cultures and traditions? What form of liberation is equal to the task of world liberation? https://t.co/0ScepYdOe1" / X
@trippfuller Our freedom is no more liberatory than the bounds of truth defining it, of course. How, then, does a fully planetary embrace map onto the levels of liberation delineated by specific world cultures and traditions? What form of liberation is equal to the task of world liberation? https://t.co/0ScepYdOe1
![Image of Rebbe Abraham Joshua Heschel and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from tweet here:
https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1548743408524480512
Tweet thread:
https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1674052414641524738?s=20
@BerniceKing
Jun 28, 2023
CHALLENGE:
Before sharing another quote from my father or asserting what he would stand for or against today, read #LetterFromBirminghamJail and comment on this tweet with something you learned.
Letter: https://africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
@nick_routledge
"If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century." He was right. A fresh 21stC. start, then?
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"Jesus was calling for a radical disruption of his religion, a great spiritual migration. A similar disruption and migration are needed no less today in the religion that names itself after Him. - McLaren
[From tweet here, responding to the Letter from Birmingham Jail, color inverted for graphic fit:
https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1821066495583252668?s=20
Of edited tweet originally here:
https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1297338768244932610]
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@nick_routledge
April 1, 2023
@MattThiessenNT
Same on the streets, never mind in the Academy. Let's be honest. It's time for a fresh start. "From time to time, the image of God has to die so not to become an idol. It has to become transparent to transcendence to be renewed." ~ Joseph Campbell
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Richard Rohr
@RichardRohrOFM
May 22, 2022
Let’s be honest: religion has probably never had such a bad name. Christianity is now seen as “irrelevant” by some, “toxic” by many, and often as a large part of the problem rather than any kind of solution. It’s time to rebuild from the bottom up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mqruerbutv3kynufozqek7td/bafkreib6ayekvkuviqqpgsftsrgyjnkeoues3j566uv6rvsxobcfumjb4q)
![Copy of tweet here:
https://x.com/nick_routledge/status/1843351054479700455
@nick_routledge
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Oct 7, 2024
Replying to
@Plough
"...the commandment to hear aright...must be first fulfilled in order that we may then become obedient to it. The word of Jesus places one in decision, the decision of hearing aright, [whereby] one “does” the word, or of hearing falsely, in which case one “does not do” the word."
1/7 The hermaneutic, deeply vexing, though, isn't it? How on earth do we sensibly communicate an experience of the staggering meaningfulness and plenitude of a Depth Realm conceived and experienced only through an obedience to love turning the world upside down? (Acts 17:6)
@nick_routledge
We only have the first fruits of the Kingdom in this world, but we experience enough to know that it’s the only thing that will ever satisfy us. Once we have had the truth, half-truths do not satisfy us anymore. In its light, everything else is relative, even our own life. -Rohr
@nick_routledge
Jun 2, 2024
Ragaz: "Not only does Jesus not bring a new religion, he does not bring any religion at all. One can't make this fact clear enough. He does not want a new religion, but rather a kingdom, a new creation, a new world." Thus, "We must teach spiritual things spiritually," 1 Cor. 2:13
@nick_routledge
Feb 5
Replying to @nick_routledge and @Dan_Bowdoin
end/ Panikkar: "The ultimate religious fact does not lie in the realm of doctrine or even individual self-consciousness... subordinating reality to mind. The ultimate basis for the method will have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose." (Lk. 17:20-21)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mqruerbutv3kynufozqek7td/bafkreia5zqsa3kr27t73uwfykdb2d3i5bnx2gtei6oemqyfhasujsacto4)
![@nick_routledge
end/ The movement of life and history as a unitive incarnation? Evolution and Presence as one? The conversational ecology of Spirit correlating with the future? A dynamic theophany of calibration? Faith. Whatever we call it, the path is made by walking. May the Force be with you.
@johnmilbank3
Dec 6
You couldn’t make this up.
[Image of personal statement from the Archbishop of Canterbury]
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@nick_routledge
Nov 1
His 2014 announcement doubting the existence of God? Keating: "The notion that God is absent is the fundamental illusion of the human condition." What is faith alive after all, other than an ontic threshold delineated by passing over from God-belief into God-experience itself.
| seem to recall Pir-O-Murshid stating, simply, "What Jesus came to teach was faith.” Just now I'm constructing a Twitter piece on faith and reality, hence trawling my notes and asking around for relevant Inayatiyya snippets....Faith, that is, not as a label’ commonly referring to the forms, concepts and rationalizations of religious and materialist logic and, as such, caricatures of reality co-existent with, say, fallacies of certitude; rather, as an experiential threshold accessing the surge of a supra-personal mystery, intelligence, telos, power and portal. And this, in the context of, for example, Seyedd Hossein Nasr's: “The empirical epistemology which has dominated the horizon of Western man in the modern period, has succeeded in removing the concept of “reality” as a category pertaining to God. The consequence of this change in the very meaning of reality has been nothing less than catastrophic, reducing God and in fact all spiritual realms of being to the category of the abstract and finally to the unreal’, and quantum physicist, David Bohm: "Take “a coherent approach to reality and reality takes a coherent approach to you"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mqruerbutv3kynufozqek7td/bafkreiaa7hk7eoqcvwhfjxga7dyls2v3gqe3nq35x2nngdyucl4lpsozzm)
