Anabaptism
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See the first essay in Graeber’s newest posthumous book, also archived here: There Never Was a West ↩︎
🕊️ cool: intro to Matthew in the Anabaptist Commmunity Bible was written by my New Testament in Context seminary professor: Dorothy Jean Weaver.
🕊️ New Anabaptist Community Bibles are like…really tall and thin. Bold format choice.
🕊️ Taking our godson to Episcopal advent service, so I’m dressed like a prep instead of a Mennonite hiker.
🕊️🏴 A friend and Richard Beck (Experimental Theology) both pointed me to this Paul Kingsnorth lecture, so, despite being mildly allergic to talk of “the West”1, I watched and enjoyed it.
🕊️🗳️ The thing I keep thinking about:
As the behavior and rhetoric worsened, more and more people chose villainy.
Fear is what makes villainy “acceptable.”
One can’t reason with fear. Fear is deeper.
Virtue and hope must be cultivated in advance, to undermine fear’s ability to take root.
🕊️ “Christian Nationalism is bad for the nation and it is bad for the church.”
Amen, pastor Richard
🕊️ Let no one say we didn’t know.
The horror must end. The United States must stop arming Israel.
🕊️ People out there being like “man, I hate both-sides"ers about USA politics and then doing it themselves when it comes to brutal expansionist regimes & the people they are targeting.
🎶 exhorting us to get to know our neighbors and repping kids in Palestine before singing Native Blood this time! 🕊️ #FF24
🎶🕊️ Garrett doing his thing and explicitly critiquing the myth of redemptive violence before playing Panic Room. #FF24 #homeworkcore
This song gets me every time.
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Them: don’t forget orthodoxy
Me, to myself: don’t forget orthopraxy
Explainer: we can be less sure about all the mysteries of the universe, but many traditions (mine included) have some more explicit examples and about how to be.
(Not to mention that doxes are usually picking parts to be ortho.)
🕊️ anarchism as a spiritual discipline via @ayjay
Try, in every way we can think of, to increase the number of situations in our lives in which we are neither dehumanized by an omnipotent state nor engaged in ceaseless competition with one another in an omnipotent marketplace.
🕊️ Mennonites march 135 miles to White House for Gaza cease-fire
“We need to do something that doesn’t make sense because what’s happening in Gaza doesn’t make sense,” said organizer Nick Martin, explaining the rationale behind “All God’s Children March for a Ceasefire.”
Saw somebody with a bunch of religious-iconography tattoos and a shirt that said:
pray for peace prepare for war
One must decide whether to live into their faith or abandon it when it’s hard.
(Yes, I know there is history behind that and similar phrases.)
🕊️ pianist played “How can I keep from singing?” as an instrumental piece. 🤭