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Too many clergy talk about Christianity in terms of ‘my faith journey’ etc as if Christianity were just a private matter rather than an adamant claim about the open and public manifestation of God himself in history, upon which all legitimate order must now in some way be based.
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I don't think you can really understand the dispute between the Pope and the Trump administration unless you understand the bizarre phenomenon of post-Christian Christianity.
Link in comments.
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Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace
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The attack by Christian apologetic upon the adulthood of the world I consider to be in the first place.pointless, in the second ignoble, and in the third un-Christian.
Bonhoeffer
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Ultra Processed Food, and the system that produces it, has overtaken tobacco in terms of health and economic harms, and is also the leading cause of plastic pollution, loss of biodiversity and deforestation, and the second leading cause of emissions.
This week @TheLancet published a landmark three-part series on the science, policy and politics of #UPF. thelancet.com/series-do/ultr…
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My friend Christoph Heilig just published an OPEN-ACCESS edited volume entitled Empire Criticism of the New Testament. You can see the ToC below & download the PDF here:
mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empi…
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Having very little meaningful connection with anyone, and working to barely make rent each month (let alone buy somewhere) will make anyone miserable.
John Gray put it to me like this: at least peasants under European feudalism had the promise of the afterlife.
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Leading theologians like Ruether, Brock, Weaver, and Girard are abandoning divine sanction of the cross, reframing atonement around Christ's life rather than death. Andrew P. Campbell offers fair analysis of this revolutionary shift.
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Because I love you and care for your soul's eternal welfare, I'm going to go ahead and share this excerpt from a Holy Cross Day sermon by the one and only Katherine Sonderegger, just published in the latest VTS Journal.
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I am reading this book. The Blumhardts influenced Barth and I have always been drawn to CFB. A voice for our times. Every preacher in every pulpit this Sunday and for Sundays to come should be proclaiming radical grace, love for enemy, opposition to violent speech.
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Perhaps the Church of England’s greatest trauma now is to live at the end of the age of print, when its life has been the creation of centuries of rumination on two texts - KJV and BCP. Hardy saw this.
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.@simonparke celebrates Julian of Norwich and her shock value
churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
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I’m not normally prone to fomo, & even less in the end phase of dissertation writing. But I read Paul Blower’s OUP book on Maximus the Confessor last year and only in the middle heard of JDW’s magnificent book. @JordanW41069857. And it feels like everyone’s talking about it so…
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Come on, he opposes virtually every tenet of Catholic social teaching and was just schooled by the pope.
Vance has the potential to be an entirely different kind of Catholic statesman: one who embraces a proper relationship between the Church’s authority and his own political and social conclusions.
firstthings.com/the-convert-…
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What's on my mind today? A lot of things. But amongst the least troubling is that I've started posting my Romans translation on my website. It is supposed to be an especially contemporary, colloquial, take. If I'm missing the mark badly, do let me know.
douglascampbell.me/blog