Bishop: Is it your will that N. be ordained a priest?

“The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.” - Longfellow

I held you in my arms today and cried while I hugged you. Not because of any broken thing…

Searching, perhaps in peril, for a way to articulate the ineffable.

“Human community is the universal obligation to live fully ourselves and to live well with others. […] Benedictine spirituality depends on personal commitment and community support…” - Sr. Joan Chittister

“for a religion is known from the inside.” - Simone Weil

Maundy Thursday Reflection

I, like Weil, could witness countless men and women rise from the grave and not be moved in the slightest bit to regard them as holy or divine. And, with her, if the Gospels were to omit all mention of the resurrection of Christ, it would not impede my adoration. What is sufficient for me is the love so deep, so high, so broad. The love that kneels down and becomes nothing, taking on the form of a slave. That produces for me “the same effects that the resurrection does for others.”

Holy Monday Reflection.

Lavishing will save the world, not calculative management.

W.E.B. Dubois: advice to his teenage daughter, and to all that labor.

Kenarchy Journal Vol.6

Jon Paul Robles

Abstract
At the root of oppression and violence is the reduction of fellow human beings into mere objects. Broken modalities of human engagement continue to rupture our world. Through the lens of the Anthony Ray Hinton story, this paper imagines a path from dehumanization to a humanizing encounter, even with the most unlikely “other.” Drawing from the philosophies of Martin Buber and Simone Weil, I examine what lies at the center of these fractured paradigms of relation and survey the life-giving possibilities that open up to us when we see the other as truly sacred, free from control or ownership.

“There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for, so I try to keep clearand still as water does with the moon.”- Rumi

“John is not concerned with the forgiveness of individual sins. Nor does he proclaim a form of substitutionary atonement, through which Jesus takes on the divine punishment… Rather, in John 12:20–33, Jesus’ crucifixion judges “the world” and drives out the “ruler of the world”… “The World (grk: Kosmos) is probably best translated as ‘the System.’” - Charles Campbell

“Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” - Neil Postman