Christian revival: fantasy or reality?
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With recent examples of high-profile atheists publicly converting to religious faith, or aligning with ‘cultural Christianity’, it seems the tide might be turning against secularism...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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May 16, 2024
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“We’re seeing the falling away of the myth that we make decisions based on arguments… There is really good evidence that we come to our conclusions about things based on the relationships that we’re in, and the people that we trust, and the stories that make sense to us.” - Elizabeth Oldfield
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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May 24, 2024
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"People want to know, does [Christianity] help with the pain of being a person. Actually, testimony is the way the church has always held out this Word of Life saying I'm not better than you, I'm not pointing fingers, I'm not judging you... come and see... the woman at the well, come and see, this person who told me everything about my life and has offered me life... if it's not liberating us and steadying us, and crucially in these times, helping us learn to love our neighbors as ourselves, rather than let ourselves be increasingly divided, just when we're going to need each other most, then what good is it?
I believe it's true, I believe the spirit comes and helps us with that, but the reason I think we are going to see a much stronger tip back to actual religion rather than just spirituality... is that we're really going to need each other." - Elizabeth Oldfield
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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May 24, 2024
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"The World it has trained us to see certain things. The way you pay attention changes what you are able to see. Ritualized communal emotional embodied forms of practice literally make it easier for you to see what is really there. God is really there. There is a logic of love in the universe that wants to meet us... but if you have to start with I can't get on board with that I don't know how to make sense of the metaphysics... but like Pascal I'm just going to go to church and see what happens... those things actually come together into a beautiful union." - Elizabeth Oldfield
Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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May 24, 2024
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"Walter Bugman talks about the quartet of the vulnerable, when the God in the Hebrew Bible gets angry, it's usually that someone has not protected the orphan, the Widow, the alien, stranger, Sojourner, immigrant, or the poor.
And, if we try and take on a Christian identity to shore up an unstable sense of self, and to exclude the other, it's really hard to read the new testament texts with any sense of integrity.
The call to love your enemy as yourself, welcome the stranger... feed the hungry, visit the prisoner... that ethical strand which is only one strand braided, would say it's the true strand... whatever you think about immigration policy if you are not welcoming the stranger you have missed something." - Elizabeth Oldfield