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Richard Rohr on liberals and conservatives.

Oh my.
My quick, feeble attempt at throwing Moderates into this conversation. 😁
What shall we say to these things? Here’s a start.

Love deeply.
Do justice.
Repent often.
Pray without ceasing.
Live contemplatively.
Admit our duplicity.
Do the inner work.
Laugh at ourselves.
Proclaim the Lordship of Jesus and his kingdom.

That’s all I got. 😁
I should also note that Rohr wrote this in 2006.
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The exhausting, but important work pastors have is helping the people we lead move beyond enmeshment w/the political figures they support.

People are so enmeshed that it’s hard to distinguish political figures from themselves.

The domino effect of enmeshment looks like this:
To critique the President (or any political leader) it to critique the party I align with.

To critique the party is to critique the values I hold dear.

To critique the values I hold dear is to critique my vision of a flourishing world...
To critique my vision of a world that flourishes is to critique my understanding of God.

To critique my understanding of God is to critique me at my deepest center.

Makes sense why people get defensive when their political leader is criticized.
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I have found that one of the most important pastoral tasks that must be regularly repeated in pursuing racial justice is defining and redefining these 2 words:

• gospel
• racism

If we get these two words wrong, everything else is bound to fail.
My go to definition of the gospel:

The gospel is the good news that God’s kingdom has come near in Jesus Christ, and through his life, death, resurrection, and ascension, the powers of sin and death no longer have the last word.
Re racism, I have found Ibram Kendi’s definition helpful:

Racism is a marriage of racist policies and ideas that produces and normalizes racial inequalities.
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In a scrolling and glancing culture, we need the slow and bite-sized practice of Lectio Divina.

In a hurried and superficial age, the we need the anchoring rhythm of fixed hours of prayer.

In a non-stop culture of work, we need the gift of Sabbath-keeping.
In a world addicted to experience, we need a deeper, mystical encounter of God in centering prayer.

In a world marked by verbosity, we need the purifying practice of silence.

In a world that quickly moves from one trending topic to another, we need the discipline of the Examen.
In a world hungry for things to be made right, we need courages acts for justice.

In a society marked by antagonisms, we need to cultivate greater differentiation.

In a culture hell-bent on hatred, we need the gospel’s power to forgive.
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