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“What do we need to eliminate?”
Triggers
Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter
Jesus’ reign isn’t other-worldly. It isn’t apolitical. It’s just political in a radically different way.
That Holy Anarchist
Mark Van Steenwyk and Ched Myers
Christian ethics, as a cultivation of those virtues needed to keep us on the journey, are the ethics of revolution. Revolutionaries, whose goal is nothing less than the transformation of society through revolution, have little patience with those among them who are self-indulgent, and they have no difficulty disciplining such people. The discipline they demand of themselves is a means of directing the others to what is true and good. Having no use for such bourgeois virtues as tolerance, open-mindedness, and inclusiveness (which the revolutionary knows are usually cover-ups that allow the powerful to maintain social equilibrium rather than to be confronted and then to change), revolutionaries value honesty and confrontation—painful though they may be.
Resident Aliens
Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon
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