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It’s hardly surprising that so many of us are processing this immense, unknowable collective catastrophe by escaping into smaller, everyday emergencies. A crisis you create for yourself, after all, is a crisis you might be able to control. Frantic productivity is a fear response.
Productivity Is Not Working
Laurie Penny
Leaning into a challenge means that we ask ourselves some version of the question: “What can I learn new about me in these circumstances?”
The Map
Keith M. Eigel, PhD
The church was turning the world upside down. Throwing city after city into political and economic chaos. Holy hell breaking out. Despite a lack of overt antagonism, the Roman Empire came to see the Christian church as a threat, targeting Christians for persecution. Paul was beheaded. Christians were thrown to lions. Followers of Jesus were killed in gladiator games. This is the paradox of Jesus. Rome had trouble officially locating a treasonous element in Jesus and his followers, but riots broke out. The church was turning the world upside down. Something revolutionary was happening, but Rome had trouble seeing what it was. And I think we have the same problem. It’s hard for us to nail down exactly why the church was so subversive and revolutionary. What happened was that when people gave their spiritual allegiance to King Jesus, they started opting out of the Roman Zeitgeist and its political and economic systems.
Reviving Old Scratch
Richard Beck
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