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The Hebrews vision of life, grounded in the God who has “fashioned the cosmos out of love” is covenantal. There is no other word that so captured the meaning of life lived before the face of God, responsible for love’s sake to God for history, for the way the world is and ought to be. The biblical vision is that the convenant becomes incarnate in Jesus
— Jul 03, 2021 07:27AM
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Olivia
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There is no more difficult task, holding onto individual and institutional responsibility for the way the world turns out— knowing the worst of the human heart and the corporate embodiment of that heart and still choosing to be responsible, for loves sake.
— Jul 10, 2021 04:49PM
Olivia
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The older love becomes, the more clearly it understands it’s involvement in partiality, imperfection, suffering, and mortality. Even so, it longs for incarnation. It can live no longer by thinking. And yet to put on flesh and do the flesh’s work, it must think. —WB
— Jul 10, 2021 09:42AM
Olivia
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When the prophets speak for God, the primary lament is that the people of Israel know but do not do, they know but do not feel.
— Jul 10, 2021 07:36AM
Olivia
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What wonder have you done to me?/ In binging love you set me free./ These sixty years the wonder prove:/ I bring you aged a young man’s love./
— Jul 10, 2021 07:19AM
