Thank you for the deep response to such a pressing prompt -particularly the extended metaphor of this mysterious fount whose world-flooding outpour spills over the far corners of our cosmos and yet culminates with Christ on the shore serving breakfast (the actual scene of which is a personal favorite). While the seven part scroll as a whole has been encyclopedic (on the enjoyable order of Williams' "Descent of the Dove"), it has also been at times a meditation, even skiffing at certain touch points on that tepid surface where I can't help but think many of us find ourselves wading with DBH's prompt, sitting in agreement and awe at the propositions put to words, that liminal space where plunges action or floats interiority. To those who would say, "This is all very well, but what do we *do", I wonder if there is one such place in the 3rd part of this, your 7th installment mailed (sic) to the church door. I'm taken by this loaded phrase (which has echos from the lofty halls of Agamben to the devotional pamphlets of N.T. Wright and the like), and I'm compelled to submerge the "politics of resurrection" into something like "activism of the Way". Wave upon wave, a unified "christian" response to the issues that threaten our world is dashed and divided over politically crafted rocks like ProLife-ProChoice, but might we shift the field from imperial participation to humble subversion of a broken system if we gave a clear grammar that beaconed brighter than such barking dualisms (e.g. working to build support systems for the disenfranchised who find themselves in the position to abort, rather than punishing them)? A good branding consultant might say it more like, "Christians need clear messaging". We need a compelling language/grammar (voice) that cuts through left and right, a third "Way." Absent of this we are perhaps still sailing the question (which is also necessary, for sure) rather than channeling the waters which lead to that Galilean shore.
Thank you for the deep response to such a pressing prompt -particularly the extended metaphor of this mysterious fount whose world-flooding outpour spills over the far corners of our cosmos and yet culminates with Christ on the shore serving breakfast (the actual scene of which is a personal favorite). While the seven part scroll as a whole has been encyclopedic (on the enjoyable order of Williams' "Descent of the Dove"), it has also been at times a meditation, even skiffing at certain touch points on that tepid surface where I can't help but think many of us find ourselves wading with DBH's prompt, sitting in agreement and awe at the propositions put to words, that liminal space where plunges action or floats interiority. To those who would say, "This is all very well, but what do we *do", I wonder if there is one such place in the 3rd part of this, your 7th installment mailed (sic) to the church door. I'm taken by this loaded phrase (which has echos from the lofty halls of Agamben to the devotional pamphlets of N.T. Wright and the like), and I'm compelled to submerge the "politics of resurrection" into something like "activism of the Way". Wave upon wave, a unified "christian" response to the issues that threaten our world is dashed and divided over politically crafted rocks like ProLife-ProChoice, but might we shift the field from imperial participation to humble subversion of a broken system if we gave a clear grammar that beaconed brighter than such barking dualisms (e.g. working to build support systems for the disenfranchised who find themselves in the position to abort, rather than punishing them)? A good branding consultant might say it more like, "Christians need clear messaging". We need a compelling language/grammar (voice) that cuts through left and right, a third "Way." Absent of this we are perhaps still sailing the question (which is also necessary, for sure) rather than channeling the waters which lead to that Galilean shore.