Ash

former atheist. immigrant. kiristhusyshian.

[Ash @sure_mercies]

my great grandparents (1930s) — Rev Balakrishnan and family

[Ash @sure_mercies]

white folks deconstructing from christianity is in one sense preferable I suppose because they are often unable and unwilling to deconstruct from white supremacy — which is a far deeper, more painful and costly process

[Ash @sure_mercies]

His body was broken and his blood shed for our consumption. As I consume him, he consumes me; for our God is a consuming fire.

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Christ is both the diagnosis of the human condition and its remedy. The Great Physician reveals to us the depths of our fatal disease and, in the very same breath, offers the complete healing of an incorruptible life through his own body and blood.

[Ash @sure_mercies]

He must enter into our breath and blood, body and bones, the very core of our being, so as to vivify us. Our personalities and passions, our minds and imaginations, our souls and spirits must be infused with the healing balm of the Lamb who was slain.

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Douglas A. Campbell, Pauline Dogmatics: The Triumph of God’s Love

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“God will not let humanity go. In the contest between divine benevolence and human recalcitrance fought out in the space that is the human race, God will win. All humanity will be saved. And God really is a covenantal God, committed to us all permanently and irrevocably.”

[Ash @sure_mercies]

The gospel is a story of rescue; it is only rescue…through and through!

The best of us need rescuing and the even the worst of us will not be left behind.

It is a tale of the relentless love of God rescuing all humanity (and the cosmos itself!) from its bondage to corruption.

[Ash @sure_mercies]

to be a prophet is to be attacked, mocked, maligned and rejected; they will cast out your name as evil

to be a prophet is to respond, not vengefully or in anger, but in the spirit of christ, fearless yet forgiving

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In relation to belief in cosmic redemption, if I am to be considered a heretic, then so be it. In my defense, I cannot be blamed if Christ, as Logos, King and Savior, has so filled my vision that I can no longer see hell as I once saw it.

[Ash @sure_mercies]

of course — this is not how the kingdom works — but from a socio-cultural perspective, this is undeniable

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christianity as a religion functions as a metropole dominated and controlled by white men

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the vast majority its institutional power lies in their hands

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From Dr Ramelli’s “A Larger Hope?”

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what you believe to be the power of logic may in reality be the logic of power

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the gospel by its intrinsic nature stirs up persecution

because it challenges the illegitimate powers that dominate the cosmos.

this is why the Church often resists and opposes the kingdom of god

[The AND Campaign @AndCampaign]

The Church failed on unity because we failed on love. We traded grace for outrage. Reconciliation isn’t performative—it’s sacrificial.

#LoveYourEnemies

[Abeneazer Gezahegn Urga @AbeneazerGUrga]

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[Ash @sure_mercies]

Once one understands that the christian faith has functioned as an imperial religion in the west for many centuries, then you can view white christian nationalism for what it is: a resurgent adaptation of an age-old malady

[Indo-Christian Culture @indo_christian]

Happy Easter!