sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better.
Oppositional energy only creates more of the same. All problem solving must
first be guided by a positive and overarching vision.
We must reclaim the Christian project, building from the true starting point
of Original Goodness. We must reclaim Jesus as an inclusive Savior instead of an
exclusionary Judge, as a Christ who holds history together as the cosmic Alpha
and Omega. Then, both history and the individual can live inside of a collective
safety and an assured success. Some would call this the very shape of salvation.
*1 Bonaventure, The Soul’s Journey to God 1, 9–10 (New York: Paulist Press, 1978), 63.
*2 Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press,
1988), ch. 6.
*3 Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness (New York: Harmony Books, 2013), xxvi.
*4 I wrote about this concept at greater length in my book Immortal Diamond.