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July 3 - September 29, 2019
first
the prophetic message never really disappears.
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people grow slowly.
Prophecy is a matter of dialogue, of education, of process, of patience.
To be made invisible is to be made impotent. To me marginalization is a death far worse than death.
the effect of being soundly dismissed is smothering.
Edgar Allan Poe
“To vilify the great man is the readiest way little people can themselves attain greatness.”
prophets were often run o...
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socialist,
feminist—a
a l...
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simply ignored.
finds them faulty before finding them debatable,
Both the prophetic voice and the prophetic community of those who band together to become a voice, a force in society, are regularly belittled, demeaned, discounted.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
“uncanny indifference.”
ignorance was more preferable than pu...
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Isaiah
simply continued his work, more sure than ever that Yahweh’s word is true and will not be dismissed. Instead of withdrawing from the field, he simply began to work differently.
time then to double our efforts for spiritual depth.
the moment for the stripping of the self.
called to trust God alone.
we go into the cave of the self and fill it with God alone.
Better to fail, in fact, than to have missed the freedom of heart that comes with speaking Truth to those who seek to smother it.
this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
Plato
“The wise speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something.”
the prophet comes to warn, to persuade, to enlighten.
People with a prophet’s heart
are holy because they lead hearts, not armies
Charles Borromeo,
“We must meditate before, during, and after everything we do. The prophet says, ‘I will pray, and then I will understand.’
Hosea
“The people perish for want of knowledge.”
being seduced by the practice of religion but overlooked entirely the rig...
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Micah
All we see is that some are profiting and most are not.
the role of unlikely messengers to contemporary society has been established.
the history of prophets with their churches—ancient and present—is a clouded one.
The institutional church, for example, seeking new alliance with secular governments, ignored the prophets, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Germany
is actually the very nonviolent character of the dissent that is what makes prophetic dissent so threatening.
Dissent—prophetic spirituality—jeopardizes the status quo.
Who is being advantaged by maintaining the present situation and who stands to lose if it changes?
First,
Second,
our role is to see that our discipleship does not sink into the status quo.
I do not shout in order to change them. I shout so that they cannot change me.”
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”
