Oliver Art Center «Home: Making Space
for Radical Love and Struggle.»
Still from Love / Amor, an experimental film by CCA lecturer Shylah Hamilton on view in HOME: Making Space
for Radical Love and Struggle
What if Christianity was truly known
for radical love and passionate pursuit of justice?
Not exact matches
I want to
love God enough to be willing to do what saints who have gone before me have done: to do something
radical and countercultural
for Christ.
She insists on an essentially theological view of the world as the only appropriate starting point
for effective
radical politics — the only way to maintain a right understanding of what we are about and to avoid partisanship in our efforts to do justice,
love mercy and walk humbly with God.
When read with pater familias, rather than the Dunphys, in mind, we see just how
radical Peter and Paul must have sounded when they instructed husbands to
love their wives as much as Christ
loved the church and to be willing to give their lives
for them!
We encourage Christians in America to look to the persecuted church
for an example of steadfast courage and
radical love — and to reject the temptation to allow fear to rule our lives.
I particularly found my experience the Buddhist «meta» or
loving kindness and finding contentedness through all things through the teaching of the Buddhist Tara Brach and her book «
Radical Aceeptance» worked more
for me though applying the same principles of
love including
love of enemies that Christianity teaches.
As I dream
for my children I have come to see how easy it is
for fear to trump hope;
for a desire
for their safety and comfort to displace a desire that they would experience and participate in Christ's
radical love; and
for uniformity to be mistaken
for unity.
Instead, both in the suffering of the Holocaust and in the triumphant Jewish return from exile, he saw the call of a
radical new Christian task: «to see the Jews as God sees them, to
love them as He
loves them, to understand their place in the divine plan
for Salvation according to the theological vocation of God's people.»
For the
love which is made incarnate and powerful in Christ's presence among men is a
love which involves a
radical transformation of all earthly
loves in the light of the Kingdom.
We are to be prepared
for the extravagance, the
radical spontaneity, the unruliness of
love in human existence.
How much harder would it be
for the world to label us as judgmental, condemning, intolerant, superficial hypocrites, if we actually lead by example, by service, by
radical, ridiculous, unconditional
love?
In sum, what the hippies found is that when the call to
love one another isn't being matched enough by the actual feeling (and doesn't even seem to be working
for the really
radical ones out on the commune), and when the life immersed in drugs, hedonism, festivals, personal drama, and song can no longer keep one from noticing this, there's always the old stand - by, the enemy, which can be evoked to bring «us» together.
While its sad that many Christians forget this fact in our culture today, bowing into the world and compromising the truth of God
for comfort, its also said that some groups are hated
for speaking «the truth» rather than displaying the
radical love of Christ.
Actually Brehvik does not consider himself a christian in his words, «in the strictest sense», so the first part of your point is moot... Secondly I think a fairer statement would be that not «all» muslims are violent extremists, as many who don't live in western countries are, as their book does instruct them to kill any and all who do not procalim allah as the one god and mohammed as his prophet... As far as having extreme passion
for one's beliefs, if someone was truly to be an «extreme» christian that person would be completely
loving as this was Jesus» command to
love both God and everyone... to take that to the extreme would mean «extreme»
loving, like the
radical kind of
love that caused Jesus to endure the cross
for the sins of us all... includinig the man who committed this atrocity and yes any and all of the muslim's who have committed similar things.
1) They are consenting to an act that does not harm another; and 2) These
radical Christians aren't advocating
for people to be killed
for the aforementioned harmful crimes, yet want people put to death
for loving each other.
In the last chapter, the connection of the
radical demand
for love with the primacy of grace and the sense of original sin was discussed.
For Jesus, on the other hand, the whole
radical demand of God on men was placed in the context of God's
love.
An «offensive»,
radical Jesus who encourages deep
love and care
for the poor is only one of the several NT Jesuses, I think.
Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary
love, clearly lays the basis
for the affirmation of
radical creativity and the need
for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).
If there be a place
for the assumption of the moral risks of compromise in the way of
love, there is also place
for renunciation which involves
radical attack on everything which stands in the way of the new order which God wills.
Your readers might be interested in a recent piece of mine highlighting the
radical difference between the marriage covenant ontologically ordered towards the formation of family and two adults autonomously contracting
for «
loving» purposes chosen by themselves.
The Christian proclamation seeks to state clearly and decisively that in Christ God has made himself known to us as one who
loves us so unconditionally that his
love calls
for radical behavior change on our part.
In Matthew 25, Jesus makes a
radical connection between our encounters and
love for the poor, the naked, the hungry, and the stranger, and to himself.
I don't mean some sort of epiphany that one might call enlightenment, but a kind of
radical worldview change (caused by the Spirit) that shapes the way we interact with the world and causes us to take up arms
for love and justice.
The argument that Jesus is in the NT and that he was
for a «
Radical Love» implies that he did not approve of the teachings of the OT.
and relight old fires of hatred and pain, I would worry about the safety too of the good American Muslims, although it was
radicals to have a Mosque where 3,000 were killed seems to me to rub salt in wounds
for many, I don't really understand what happened to the plans of statues and tributes to those lost in 911, other than a money factor.It seems like this Mosque will be viewed as a Trojan horse, no religion would want a house of worship to be a reminder of hatred.it should be a place reminding the world of peace and
love if it's a place of worship, and in that location it will not bring a feeling of peace.
For these radical Christians, love and peace were not specifically female qualities, but common ideals for both men and wom
For these
radical Christians,
love and peace were not specifically female qualities, but common ideals
for both men and wom
for both men and women.
The Society of Friends offered a congenial environment
for both women's equality and nonviolence through a common understanding of a
radical Christian ethic of
love.
He simply represents the most harmful, dangerous kind of
radical Christian there is — fork tongued — ready at an instant to wage war or give
love — even on the same damn side of an argument if it is «politically» advantageous
for his to do so.
Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I wonder if the best thing that could happen to this country is
for Christ to be taken out of Christmas —
for Advent to be made distinct from all the consumerism of the holidays and
for the name of Christ to be invoked in the context of shocking forgiveness,
radical hospitality, and logic - defying
love.
While evil is not
radical, if by that is intended «at the root of things» —
for it can not be, if God is
love and is Himself «at the root of things» through His creativity at work in them — it is most certainly not to be dismissed or minimized or talked away.
For those who follow Jesus, authority should be surrendered — and shared — willingly, with the humility and love of Jesus... or else we miss the once radical teaching that slaves and masters, parents and children, husbands and wives, rich and poor, healthy and sick, should «submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.&raq
For those who follow Jesus, authority should be surrendered — and shared — willingly, with the humility and
love of Jesus... or else we miss the once
radical teaching that slaves and masters, parents and children, husbands and wives, rich and poor, healthy and sick, should «submit to one another out of reverence
for Christ.&raq
for Christ.»
He was all about transparency, frankness and a commitment to
love and grace, no matter who we were dealing with, way too
radical for our supposedly progressive Non-denominational Evangelical church.
But
for St. Francis and his followers the spirit of
love leads to
radical nonconformity amid the patterns of culture with their structures of power and privilege.
Even the most
radical assertions that the divine
love is «uncalculating» usually come with the concession that
love is concern
for the need of the neighbour.
Boaz praises Ruth as a woman hayil (of valor) and describes her advocacy
for Naomi as hesed — a
radical, self - sacrificing
love.
Liberation theologians who want to appreciate the truly
radical ways of Jesus might ponder these words of Hans Küng, who writes in On Being a Christian that Jesus» revolutionary method means «
love of enemies instead of their destruction; unconditional forgiveness instead of retaliation; readiness to suffer instead of using force; blessing
for peacemakers instead of hymns of hate and revenge» (p. 191)
Christ was the man of
radical freedom — freedom from anxiety, freedom to
love — and he opens
for us the possibility of authentic existence.
Jessica Wolstenholm, Grace
for Moms [«Be Comfortable in Your Skin»] Dr. Kathleen Berchelmann, Children's Mom Docs [«Better Sleep Makes Better Parents»]-LCB- Father's Day Special Guest -RCB- Matt Warner, The
Radical Life [«Most Important Thing Dad Can Do»]-LCB- Father's Day Special Guest -RCB- Dr. Harley Rotbart, No Regrets Parenting [«Division of Labor»]-LCB- Father's Day Special Guest -RCB- Michael Hyatt, MichaelHyatt.com [«Getting it Down Helps Get it Done»]-LCB- Father's Day Special Guest -RCB- Michael Mitchell, Life to Her Years [«No Such Thing as a Perfect Parent»]-LCB- Father's Day Special Guest -RCB- Steve Wiens, SteveWiens.com [«A Lesson in
Love — From a Rash»]-LCB- Father's Day Special Guest -RCB- Jason Good, JasonGood.net [«How'd Parents Survive Before TV?»]
For those individuals transitioning in ways not mentioned above who are seeking soul - fulfilling careers, purpose, partnership, and / or
radical self -
love, continue finding moments of reflection and breathe into this new space you are in.
This is the prefect
radical self -
love treat
for yourself, or a decadent night with friends dessert and comes together in no time (as long as you...
She has been teaching
radical self -
love — a selection of powerful techniques and tools that help women transform their lives —
for close to a decade.
For the first time ever, the
Radical Self -
Love Almanac is a physical book in full colour!
The Fat Lip, hosted by Ash, «is a podcast
for and about fat people... We are proud supporters of
radical self -
love and the fierce defense of your body autonomy.»
Your zest
for life will deeply change when you follow a path of clean eating,
radical self
love and personal development.
7 tricks
for making less - than - joyful tasks feel more enjoyable, how drinking wine actually makes you skinny, a theatrical take on Hip Hop classics, 15 moving hacks to simplify the process majorly, 9 of the most important (short) life lessons ever, how to write a killer CTA in your email marketing, and the necessity of
radical self (tough)
love.
- Philosophies of natural beauty -
Radical self -
love and developing a positive inner dialogue about your body - The best anti-aging ingredients in natural skincare - Toxins to avoid in conventional skincare - Stress as a major culprit of skin problems - Demystifying natural and organic skincare standards and how to shop smart - Simple techniques
for self care and easy herbal recipes
You know the story: a mercenary -
for - hire falls in
love with an escort who eventually becomes his fiancée but it's derailed of a promised storybook ending when the cancer is eating up 3/4 of his body, so he decides the only option he has
for his story tale ending is to undergo a
radical experimental procedure that can cure him of his disease.