praxeas.bsky.social
Teacher of students, baker of bread, writer of books. Anglican, Australian in the USA. Early Christianity specialist. On Quinnipiac land at Yale. Opinions my own. Weekly lectionary comments at abmcg.substack.com
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Above all, the Spirit is known in the keeping of Jesus’ commandments, and hence in love of him and of each other. 5/5 More at open.substack.com/pub/abmcg/p/...
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The Paraclete is present whenever his “works” are performed anew, translated into our present life; not in our feelings alone, but in our actions, not only in peak experiences, but in struggle. 4/5
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Across the five passages in which John's Jesus speaks of the Paraclete there is a sort of gradual expansion or development of its meaning. The work of the Paraclete is truth first, but its expression and experience in memory lead to witness and action; they are outward, not inward. 3/5
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The Gospel for Pentecost introduces the Holy Spirit as "Paraclete." John is the only Gospel author to use the word. The translational problem—note the irony here, relative to the Acts reading and its message of mutual comprehension— is not unique to modern English. 2/5
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Of course, yes. Yet I don’t see it an inherent virtue, though, and do even see congregations celebrating their closeness and dying faster as a result… so I think it’s “unity for what?”
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Communities can be close without telling us anything about their real identity; they can be back-slapping coteries of fostering the worst in each other, and forces of evil not good. More at open.substack.com/pub/abmcg/p/...
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Just stop making an idiot of yourself in public.
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Passover is the full moon of the first Spring month. Easter is the following Sunday.
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Easter is the Sunday after the first full moon after the equinox, not a week after the equinox.
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The date is calculated in relation to Passover, which is a spring holiday.
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“It’s” was a sign this wasn’t going to go well.
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You don’t need to “integrate”
anyone - this is the problematic assumption behind identity politics. You need to work out when you need them, and make common cause at the right moment. The danger lies in failing to act in the actual political realm at all, and being content with identity formation.
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Are you going to build a collation to get him out or just enjoy that superior feeling as the place burns down though? This isn’t a moral test, it’s a crisis.
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Isn’t that good?
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They can collect us both now.