#radicalkindness — Public Fediverse posts
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The Aggressive Creativity of Jesus-Shaped Pacifism
Jesus-shaped pacifism is still aggressive—it’s just differently aggressive. It’s a unique way of acting that challenges difficult situations by flipping the script. Jesus proposes several ideas to provoke the imagination in such directions:
If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn the other cheek for them to slap and see what happens. Will they actually slap you again? Will they suddenly come to terms with themselves? Will anyone watching really choose the aggressor’s side after that?
If someone sues you for your shirt, give them your cloak too. Will they feel sickened by your offer? Will they still be able to take joy in their winnings? Will they start to realize that they have become petty enough to try to take your shirt in the first place?
If a soldier demeans you by using their legal rights to force you to carry their belongings for a mile, offer to walk an extra mile. Will they start to sweat at your kindness? Will all of the insults they made and expectations they set over the last mile start to feel gross to them? Will they even want you to do another mile? And if they don’t, then why did they make you do the first mile?
Jesus gives these examples to inspire us to choose a new Spirit-led way of responding to difficulty. They are not precise commands of what to do if you find yourself in these exact situations, for there is often more than one Jesus-like reaction in every situation. The problem is that we never experiment enough to learn this lesson, for we are more prone to choose the body’s way of fight, flight, freeze, or flop.
Jesus calls us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. These jarring examples that invite us to do jarring things are his classic examples of what this wise innocence looks like.
What is your normal reaction to the difficult situation you’ve been facing that never seems to go away? What might it look like to choose the backward ways of Jesus, where even persecution on a cross turns into resurrection on a throne?
#ChristianDiscipleship #conflict #creativeResistance #enemyLove #extraMile #innocentAsDoves #Jesus #nonviolence #pacifism #peacemaking #persecution #radicalKindness #resurrection #SermonOnTheMount #SpiritLedLiving #teachingsOfJesus #turningTheOtherCheek #wiseAsSerpents -
>At No Kings protest,
#JaneFonda reads statement from Renee Good's wife on radical kindness<#RebuildDemocracy
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuildingThe path of
#RadicalKindness 🗽 -
>At No Kings protest,
#JaneFonda reads statement from Renee Good's wife on radical kindness<#RebuildDemocracy
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuildingThe path of
#RadicalKindness 🗽 -
>At No Kings protest,
#JaneFonda reads statement from Renee Good's wife on radical kindness<#RebuildDemocracy
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuildingThe path of
#RadicalKindness 🗽 -
>At No Kings protest,
#JaneFonda reads statement from Renee Good's wife on radical kindness<#RebuildDemocracy
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuildingThe path of
#RadicalKindness 🗽 -
>At No Kings protest,
#JaneFonda reads statement from Renee Good's wife on radical kindness<#RebuildDemocracy
#OvercomeHate
#CommunityBuildingThe path of
#RadicalKindness 🗽 -
"In a world loud with profit and power, gentleness is radical. And it changes more than you think." L.Nault
#GentlenessIsRadical #RadicalKindness #QuietStrength #BeTheChange #SocialChange
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Kindness is GOP Kryptonite...
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz for His Kindness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tim-walz-education-student/ -
Kindness is GOP Kryptonite...
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz for His Kindness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tim-walz-education-student/ -
Kindness is GOP Kryptonite...
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz for His Kindness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tim-walz-education-student/ -
Kindness is GOP Kryptonite...
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz for His Kindness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tim-walz-education-student/ -
Kindness is GOP Kryptonite...
A Former Student Recalls Tim Walz for His Kindness.
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/tim-walz-education-student/ -
At least the whole stupid Ten Commandments thing is doing something good - I'm seeing so many more posts on kindness and being a good person.
I'm seeing all the ways that ancient peoples though communities would flourish, and the things that were anethemetic to them.
What I find in all of them:
1.) Love is infinitely renewable
2.) Love of money and power is deeply corrosive to the individuals soul and anything remotely resembling healthy communities.
3.) Think of someone on the worst day of their lives - painful death, loss of another - and be the person you would be to that person, but to the whole world. -
At least the whole stupid Ten Commandments thing is doing something good - I'm seeing so many more posts on kindness and being a good person.
I'm seeing all the ways that ancient peoples though communities would flourish, and the things that were anethemetic to them.
What I find in all of them:
1.) Love is infinitely renewable
2.) Love of money and power is deeply corrosive to the individuals soul and anything remotely resembling healthy communities.
3.) Think of someone on the worst day of their lives - painful death, loss of another - and be the person you would be to that person, but to the whole world. -
At least the whole stupid Ten Commandments thing is doing something good - I'm seeing so many more posts on kindness and being a good person.
I'm seeing all the ways that ancient peoples though communities would flourish, and the things that were anethemetic to them.
What I find in all of them:
1.) Love is infinitely renewable
2.) Love of money and power is deeply corrosive to the individuals soul and anything remotely resembling healthy communities.
3.) Think of someone on the worst day of their lives - painful death, loss of another - and be the person you would be to that person, but to the whole world. -
At least the whole stupid Ten Commandments thing is doing something good - I'm seeing so many more posts on kindness and being a good person.
I'm seeing all the ways that ancient peoples though communities would flourish, and the things that were anethemetic to them.
What I find in all of them:
1.) Love is infinitely renewable
2.) Love of money and power is deeply corrosive to the individuals soul and anything remotely resembling healthy communities.
3.) Think of someone on the worst day of their lives - painful death, loss of another - and be the person you would be to that person, but to the whole world. -
At least the whole stupid Ten Commandments thing is doing something good - I'm seeing so many more posts on kindness and being a good person.
I'm seeing all the ways that ancient peoples though communities would flourish, and the things that were anethemetic to them.
What I find in all of them:
1.) Love is infinitely renewable
2.) Love of money and power is deeply corrosive to the individuals soul and anything remotely resembling healthy communities.
3.) Think of someone on the worst day of their lives - painful death, loss of another - and be the person you would be to that person, but to the whole world. -
Imagine your best friend is having the worst day of their lives.
Now treat everyone like that. ❤️
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Imagine your best friend is having the worst day of their lives.
Now treat everyone like that. ❤️
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Imagine your best friend is having the worst day of their lives.
Now treat everyone like that. ❤️
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Imagine your best friend is having the worst day of their lives.
Now treat everyone like that. ❤️
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Imagine your best friend is having the worst day of their lives.
Now treat everyone like that. ❤️
