Status Updates From The Scandal of Redemption: ...

Shoutout Druski:

'Religion does not consist in a lot of praying. Religion consists in this guarantee of having God close to me because I lend a hand to my sisters and brothers. ... Because they are where God is. The degree to which we approach the poor and how we approach them -whether with love with or with scorn - determines how we approach God. What we do to the poor, we do also to God...'

'It's wonderful that God has given you this keen sensibility, and if you have a political calling, then blessed be God! Cultivate it well, and be careful not to lose that vocation. However, don't replace that social and political sensitivity with hatred, vengeance, and earthly violence. Lift your hearts on high, and consider the things that are above!'

'That is what the church wants: to disturb people's consciences and to provoke a crisis in their lives. A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not rankle, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed- what kind of gospel is that? Just nice, pious considerations that bother nobody... '