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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Curiosity is a holy refusal to reduce the world to our assumptions.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Progressive circles often miss it because they’re looking for justice - systems to reform, power to confront, harm to repair. But mysticism isn’t in competition with those aims. It’s what makes them real. (2/2)

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 10h

Mysticism offers something that neither theological purity nor social programs alone can provide: communion. Presence. Intimacy with the living God. Conservative circles often miss it because they’re looking for certainty-statements of belief, boundaries, moral clarity. (1/2)

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 13h

Mystics and poets have always felt like cousins. Marilynne Robinson, Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver… they write of rivers and rocking chairs and worn hands, and somehow, we’re ushered into the holy. It’s not always called God, but the shape of it is unmistakable.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Without mystical encounter, conservative faith hardens into ideology, and progressive faith burns out into activism without anchor. Both need the Spirit who hovers over the waters, the silence that births new creation, the Christ who slips through closed doors and breathes peace.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Mysticism doesn’t bypass the world. It sends you more deeply into it.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Karl Rahner once wrote, “The Christian of the future will be a mystic or will not exist at all.” It’s the kind of quote that makes you pause, tilt your head, and wonder if you’ve just been handed a clue or a dare.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Proof that vocation ages well. Congratulations, Dianna!

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

What is the moth? Let me know what you think.

Here’s the poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

What is the moth? Let me know what you think.

Here’s the poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Who is the moth?

Read the whole poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Who is the moth?

Read the whole poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Who is the moth?

Read the rest of the poem: open.substack.com/pub/jasonged...
#poetry

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Kevin.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

The Moth (a poem)
open.substack.com/pub/jasonged... #poem #poetry #light #spirit #screens #moth

Reposted by Jason G. Edwards

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Crosby puts words to what many of us learn the hard way: God is faithful even when heaven feels silent.

The life of faith isn’t always ecstatic light. More often it’s quiet, earthy, and cross-shaped, but that’s where grace does its slow, enduring work.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Crosby puts words to what many of us learn the hard way: God is faithful even when heaven feels silent.

The life of faith isn’t always ecstatic light. More often it’s quiet, earthy, and cross-shaped, but that’s where grace does its slow, enduring work.

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

An education in empathy…or at least the soil where it might take root. Still underrated.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

I feel seen. That’s probably why I get so much R&B turned bluegrass by duos harmonizing in barns.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like the sages saw yibbum and said, "Let’s… workshop that."

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Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 3d

If we’re honest, some of us were warned against “works” so strenuously that we missed the goodness of holy practice. Others tried to form ourselves by raw willpower and burned out. The path between is partnership with grace.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 3d

In a culture hooked on outrage, gentleness quiets the storm without denying its force.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 3d

Courage is not the absence of fear but the decision to love something more than our fear.

Jason G. Edwards @jasongedwards.bsky.social · 3d

In a polarized age, holy curiosity creates openings where the Spirit can move.