May 21, 2013
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Once the city used to pulse with energy. Dirty and dangerous, but alive and wonderful. Now it’s something else. The changes came slowly at first. Most didn’t realize, or didn’t care, and accepted them. They chose a comfortable life. Some didn’t. And those who refused to conform were pushed to the sidelines, criminalized. They became our clients. We call ourselves Runners. We exist on the edge between the gloss and the reality: the mirror’s edge. We keep out of trouble, out of sight, and the cops don’t bother us. Runners see the city in a different way. We see the flow. Rooftops become pathways and conduits, possibilities and routes of escape. The flow is what keeps us running, keeps us alive. - Faith

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May 20, 2013
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One thing, however, is sure: unless Christians fulfill their prophetic role, unless they become the advocates and defenders of the truly poor, witness to their misery, then, infallibly, violence will suddenly break out. In one way or other “their blood cries to heaven,” and violence will seem the only way out. It will be too late to try to calm them and create harmony. … So, instead of listening to the fomenters of violence, Christians ought to repent for having been too late. If the time comes when despair sees violence as the only possible way, it is because Christians were not what they should have been. If violence is unleashed anywhere at all, the Christians are always to blame. This is the criterion, as it were, of the confession of sin. Always, it is because Christians have not been concerned for the poor, have not defended the cause of the poor before the powerful, have not unswervingly fought the fight for justice, that violence breaks out.
From Jacques Ellul’s 1969 book Violence
May 16, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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The key to evaluating any individual church or nation in terms of its use of material possessions (personally, collectively or institutionally) is how well it takes care of the poor and powerless in its midst, that is, its cultural equivalents to the fatherless, widow and alien. This theme pervades the Law, the historical books, wisdom and poetry, and the prophetic literature. People always take priority over prosperity. Those in positions of power have no increased privilege, only increased responsibility.
Craig Blomberg, Neither Poverty Nor Riches: A Biblical Theology of Possessions, p. 84.  (via churchfu)

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May 6, 2013
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I don’t believe that violence is ever helpful. It only causes more violence. When a person is violent and I answer with violence, there is no other recourse but to continue the pattern. When a person is violent and we answer with love — by turning the other cheek or walking away — we offer a way out, a way to stop the cycle.
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May 6, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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The whole of our faith is the belief that God loves us; I mean there isn’t anything else. Anything else we say we believe is just a way of saying that God loves us. Any proposition, any article of faith, is only an expression of faith if it is a way of saying that God loves us…The Christian notion of God is based on a belief in a love which simply can never fail.
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