Unlikely kinship! Only a Fun-Loving, Play-Loving Spirit joining, holding, melting, molding such Mixture together! Body-filling, heart-warming, mind-boggling, Breath-Taking, Breath-Giving, Breath-Being, Breath-Doing! Jesus' own World-Changing Kinship with "God?" "Work in Progress?" Nothing, nothing, nothing in all creation separating us from Cosmic Love? Nor Any One from all the "Others?" Beginning with fear-fullest followers, dare-dodging disciples locking selves in "upper rooms?"
Yet "ending with us running loose in the streets, nobody figuring out just how we get there! Swept out and along by great winds? It's as if all the walls dissolve! Or in reversal of resurrected Christ's passage into our midst, we pass through the walls and out!" Spirit of Jesus: the Outsider In? Body of Christ: the Insider Out? "Disciples take resurrection of Jesus to streets?!" (Bill Wylie-Kellerman)
Beyond dualistic, either/or, way of thinking; to paradoxical, both/and ways -- beyond thinking itself? All by itself? Differences, tensions, conflicts, contradictions hanging together in one thought, one image, one word, one action -- Until seen in new Third, Fourth, Fifth; Many Ways as it takes? "To the Trinity -- and Beyond!"
Holy Spirit original "Moving Experience," over void, over deep, beginning again -- mobilizing, setting in motion, freeing for Freedom Movements.
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Jesus' Third Way coercive, insofar as forcing oppressors to making choices they'd rather not make. But non-lethal, great advantage of which, if we have chosen mistaken course, opponents yet alive to benefit by our apologies!
Jesus' teaching carrying far beyond war, pacifism to militant non-violence actualizing already in present ethos of God's domination-free future . . . His teaching on nonviolence forming charter for way of being in world breaking spiral of violence . . . "Do not counter evil in kind" -- this insight the distilled essence, stated with sublime simplicity, of the meaning of the cross . . .
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000,000 people experienced nonviolent revolution succeeding beyond anyone's wildest expectations. Adding all countries touched by major nonviolent action last century -- Philippines, South Africa, Poland, Soviet Union, Chile, U.S. South, Independence Movement in India . . . Do we dare now add Egypt? Tunisia? Beyond? -- figure reaching 3,337,400,000, staggering 65 percent of all humanity! In teeth of assertion, endlessly repeated, nonviolence not working in "real world." (Walter Wink)
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