Drew Downs, Writing with Hope – Make a New Normal

Salt — messy metaphor in an age of heart disease

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When Jesus compares his followers to salt, it offers a complex note to the modern understanding of nutrition, health, life, how to be.

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In the Beatitudes, we find ourselves pushing against our own priorities, against the priorities the world pushes upon us, to divide us, despise us.

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Jesus opens the sermon on the mount with an evocative recasting of the nature of humanity’s relationship to God, and ultimately, to one another.

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The first challenge in Jesus’s vision of blessing is it counters the common one. The second is that the powerful like things the way they are.

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Jesus calls disciples with metaphor; an invitation that draws them into something beyond themselves, their history, and even their understanding.

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When the state makes enemies of protestors, it uses the language of violence as cover to use violence against them, to disempower them.