tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post4617744140032664475..comments2024-03-12T00:51:27.766-04:00Comments on Ground Motive: The Spiritual Challenge of a Trump Presidencyadmin1http://www.blogger.com/profile/16479743334126277132noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post-40845168788873858462016-11-11T17:36:31.684-05:002016-11-11T17:36:31.684-05:00Ah, I love that, Josh! There's a book to be wr...Ah, I love that, Josh! There's a book to be written on a medieval spirituality of activism. Let me know when you start writing it! ;)Dean Dettloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09562985108214085534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post-46034970144613006442016-11-11T17:35:08.436-05:002016-11-11T17:35:08.436-05:00Hi Andrew, my apologies if the prose is unnecessar...Hi Andrew, my apologies if the prose is unnecessarily dense. If I could summarize the point, I would say this. There seems to me to be two main Christian responses to Trump's presidency. One says Christians should forgive and forget, support Trump, and pray for his success. The other says Christians should speak the truth of their faith to power and work on behalf of those who stand to be further marginalized by Trump's platform. I think the second approach is much more in keeping with the biblical faith of the prophets and Jesus, and I think American Christians have a lot of good examples in history for how to do this.<br /><br />Thanks for encouraging me to put things more simply! I hope this helps, and I hope to see you out there in these coming years!Dean Dettloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09562985108214085534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post-35326034788950066272016-11-10T12:40:36.416-05:002016-11-10T12:40:36.416-05:00Not ready for a reading comprehension test, but it...Not ready for a reading comprehension test, but it sounds like you're making a point.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17624002041745538196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5846671056195917287.post-6931000474482350752016-11-10T12:29:01.193-05:002016-11-10T12:29:01.193-05:00Thanks for this, Dean. Your post made me think of ...Thanks for this, Dean. Your post made me think of a passage from Gregory's <i>De anima et resurrectione</i>: <br /><br />>>Just as those who refine gold from the dross which it contains not only get this base alloy to melt in the fire, but are obliged to melt the pure gold along with the alloy, and then while this last is being consumed the gold remains, so, while evil is being consumed in the purgatorial fire, <b>the soul that is welded to this evil must inevitably be in the fire too </b>, until the spurious material alloy is consumed and annihilated by this fire.<<<br /><br />Maybe we're called to be something like that fire, even if means pain for our friends and family (ourselves?) wedded to the evil that is this disastrous ideology. <br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06143032361402350432noreply@blogger.com