Episode 71: Goodness & The Cross

Goodness incarnate was crucified. Loving kindness must somehow lead us to a cruciform, self-giving, life that takes upon itself risk for the sake of the other. "Love, if it is genuine, vastly exceeds feelings." - Kari Jo Verhulst

Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and German Jew who fled the Nazi regime once wrote, “Obedience might very well cause the end of human history.”

The sinking of humanity has come, is coming, and will always come by way of fear. Fear is the sinking of our relationships and society, it creates pits and storms (broken modalities of relationship) that we inevitably will sink into. Love and deep attention to our shared humanity will lift us out.

“Where I am going you can not come...Love one another” “When Christ said to his disciples, ‘Love one another,’ he was not prescribing attachment for them… he commanded them to transform these bonds into friendship.” - Simone Weil