…Coming into the kingdom

I was like a man who imagines a city in flames and a city at peace

and sets out not knowing whether his homecoming

will be cause for sorrow or rejoicing,

or if indeed there will be one soul that knows him,

or if he is even the same assemblage of cells this side of exile,

or if exile is no longer what he once entered but what he is…

Christian Wiman : Coming Into the Kingdom

Multi tasking is the drive to be more than we are, to control more than we do, to extend our power and our effectiveness. Such practice yields a divided self, with full attention given to nothing.

Walter Brueggemann : Sabbath as Reistance p. 67

“ By six in the evening on the first Good Friday, according to the early Christians, the world was a different place. What was different? Why was it different? And how might that revolutionary difference challenge us today, summoning us to our own vocation as followers of the shameful, scandalous crucified Jesus?”

Tom Wright : The Day the Revolution Began p.69

“How and why did the cross so quickly acquire a radically different symbolic meaning?”

Tom Wright : The Day the Revolution Began p.60

“… there’s nothing more enslaving than self-salvation projects. They never end because they never work.”

Tullian Tchividjian with Nick Lannon : It is Finished

Amid our cultural worship of hustle, rest is a reminder that God has called us, claimed us, and received us beyond any self-justification which our job would claim to offer. Amid our cultural obsession with outcomes and achievements and repeated admonishments to “do the work,” rest reminds us that Christ has done the work already, freed us by accomplishing the one thing that truly matters.

Peter Severson

“… we are here because there is an act that draws us into being and affirms our being. So we do not have to be our own origin; we do not have to try to be self-creators.

There is a level of affirmation bringing us into, and holding us in existence, which we do not have to work for.”

Rowen Williams : Being Human - Bodies, minds, persons

Page 72

“… to prioritise our disembodied existence online is nothing short of conniving at de-humanisation.”

Tony Reinke : 12 ways your phone is changing you

“Our phones take us on a limitless voyage inward and we restart the journey early every morning.”

Tony Reinke : 12 ways your phone is changing you

As anyone who has lived under totalitarianism can attest, there is something demeaning and eventually soul destroying about being expected to go along with claims you do not believe to be true and cannot hold to be true.

Douglas Murray

“Psychological categories and an inward focus are the hallmarks of being a modern person.”

“Self creation is a routine part of our modern, social imaginary.”

- Carl Trueman

Resentment is insatiable. It thrives on deprivation, sustaining itself by magnifying grievances it will, by its nature, never resolve.

Marilynne Robinson

Once a significant part of the population takes it to be true that other groups or classes do not participate legitimately in the political life of the country, democracy is in trouble.

Marilynne Robinson

It’s really a question of ‘who do you want to serve?’ We’ve built a world in which lots of very smart people have commercial incentives, moral and value incentives to build systems that submerge, and immerse, and that keep people ‘under water’ for long periods of time.

Tristan Harris