Booth—Baptist pastor, Alabama—presents the Greatest Commandments as a standard against which believers must test themselves until conformity is actually attained. Today, it seems that considerable “apologetics” energy goes toward stifling that prick of conscience—explaining why sufferers chose their lot, or why their cry threatens civilisation. Booth would recognise this as failing the test.
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Barnes: no topic receives more thorough biblical treatment than oppression, and slavery is its perfect embodiment. Everyone agrees oppression is civilization’s most urgent category. The disagreement is purely about which sufferers qualify. On-topic sufferers demand advocacy; mentioning off-topic ones is reframed as oppression itself. Barnes, reading scripture, did not appear to have a list.
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Timothy Dwight, grandson of Jonathan Edwards, imagines a revival of kindness so deep it would resemble Paradise restored: doors open to the poor and stranger, hearts ready to welcome, hands eager to relieve distress. Wealth would exist to bless; poverty only to invite generosity. The vision unsettles because it demands real openness. How might such kindness begin in us?
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William Beveridge, Anglican minister, sketches a demanding portrait of Christian life: deeper devotion, real humility, thicker charity, greater justice—yes, more just than most. He grounds it in Christ’s call to let our light shine, which clearly assumes a contrast with the surrounding dark.
Are these what we now sneer at as virtue-signalling— or is this authentic faith? How will you let your light shine?
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Remember that idea? https://www.emberhart.com/audio/episode-36-the-doors-we-do-not-take/
When fire alarms go off, people often do not use the emergency exit. They hesitate. They try to pay their bill. They stay in danger — because the known feels safer than the unknown. #Emberhart #ExaminedLife #ChangeResistance
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Gateway Books: The lessons of a defunct canon
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/gateway-books/
#HackerNews #GatewayBooks #Lessons #DefunctCanon #LiteraryAnalysis #ExaminedLife
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George Phillips was a Puritan minister. Here he summarizes the parable of Lazarus and the Rich man from Luke 16. He’s not advocating any kind of revolt, or even taxation, he’s just speaking of a moral issue. Poor people are pining. Are we reclining?
Can you make a moral statement that doesn’t quickly devolve into a wooden political policy position?
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Here's a page of links to all 81 of the Wisdom For Life radio show episodes Dan and I have produced so far, posted in my Substack resources!
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/the-wisdom-for-life-radio-show
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Thomas Cranmer was an Anglican reformer, burned at the stake under Mary I. Here he writes on the Lord’s Prayer, specifically, “Give us this day our daily bread,” and the implications of “OUR”. He laments it was very clear that the rich and greedy spent more money on parties that’s sharing with the poor.
Was this mere class warfare, or a preacher calling people to repent?
How can you consider the poor in your daily bread?#christian #food #fivepointcalvinist #theologymatters #examinedlife
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12/2023: Sunaura Taylor, 21. März 1982
Interessante philosophische Auseinandersetzungen mit unserem Verständnis von Kö
https://frauenfiguren.de/2023/03/21/12-2023-sunaura-taylor-21-maerz-1982/
#Aktivistin #Anti-Diskriminierung #Frauenfiguren #Kalender #Kunst #Malerei #Menschenrechte #Politik #Sozialwesen #abolitionismus #aktivistin #aktivistysdesintersektionalenfeminismus #arthropryposismultiplexcongenita #astrataylor #disabilitystudies #examinedlife #frauenfiguren #judithbutler #kalender #le