Nick Routledge
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Gardener, farmhand, Oregonian, treasuring life, kind friends, kind food. "A friend to all and an enemy of none." @agrariansharing @unitethepoor
@KathySaranpa Rilke, Duino Elegies: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” twitter.com/nick_routledge…
@CarlMcColman Nobody has yet articulated a Buddhist metaphysical grammar fusing eschatological drama and incarnational stakes. I suspect fusion, if it comes, will be born of reality itself evolving—contemplative depth co-constituted through dynamic reciprocity, alive to context and current.
@SherPoint 9/ "How can I announce the good news of reconciliation unless I am that?" (Nouwen) These days I’m wholly devoted to a small, rural, conservative congregation, the sublime Christian love of my church family and the supernal beauty of deeply prayerful, intensely corporate faith.
How should Christians understand and fight intrusive thoughts? This essay challenges modern psychological explanations of OCD and points believers to a biblical understanding of intrusive thoughts, emphasizing Christ, Scripture, and the hope of sanctification. ow.ly/fwnF50YYZuh
27/ But even the logic we've traced—the scandal of non-coercive awakening—has its own eschatological horizon. The very structure of optionality applies not to eternal features of consciousness, but to the conditions that are themselves temporary, marks of the age between Advents.
either way, I want to make the case that there is value with preserving in farming done correctly, and that you aren't alone if vats of tissue and bodyoids creep you out. As always, thanks to @FrontPorchRepub for the opportunity. frontporchrepublic.com/2026/05/the-pr…
@DanielPinchbeck @EFF 2/ Succumbing to a systemic form of machine-driven diabolism isn't an X-specific phenomenon, of course. The trend is implicitly embedded in the very structure of the total regime that folds culture, technology, psyche, ecology, and power into one extractive continuum.
@suzania McLuhan averred that any technology, pushed to extremes, generates the opposite of its promise. The mediated abstraction of truth is no exception. At their limit, anti-incarnational powers no longer secure reality but sever themselves from it, their logic consumed from within.
@samuelmoyn I have never wished America less important and I don't intend to start.
If you yell at your child, you are the toddler
