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On Wednesday, June 18, 2025 at 04:41:36 PM PDT, Richard Alton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large;" class="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079gmail_default">thanks, Dick</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079gmail_quote ydpb692e060yiv2948836079gmail_quote_container"><div id="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079yqt75366" class="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079yqt4908970516"><div dir="ltr" class="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM W. J. via OE <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="ydpb692e060yiv2948836079gmail_quote"><div><div style="font-family:new times, serif;font-size:18px;"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font size="5">The Young Prophets Collective just finished their first prophetic retreat.</font></div><div><font size="5">That leaves me wondering—</font></div><div><font size="5">what happened to the <b>Old </b>Prophets?</font></div><div><font size="5">And when did we turn into the Old Guard?</font></div><div><font size="5">Some of us died recently. Notably Walter Bruggemann:</font></div></div><div><font size="5"><br clear="none"></font></div></div><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border-width: medium; border-style: none; border-color: currentcolor; padding: 0px;"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"><font color="#fbfbfc" style="background-color:inherit;"><span style="font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, new times, serif;font-size:20px;">“We will not understand the meaning of prophetic imagination unless we see the connection between the </span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;font-size:20px;line-height:inherit;font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, new times, serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline-color:transparent;">religion of static triumphalism </em><span style="font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, new times, serif;font-size:20px;">and the </span><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor;font-size:20px;line-height:inherit;font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, new times, serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline-color:transparent;">politics of oppression and exploitation,</em><span style="font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, new times, serif;font-size:20px;">” Dr. Brueggemann wrote in “The Prophetic Imagination.”</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="background-color:rgb(0,0,0);"><font color="#fbfbfc" style="background-color:inherit;"><span style="font-family:nyt-imperial, georgia, new times, serif;font-size:20px;"><br clear="none"></span></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px;">I for one have had <b><i>way</i></b> more than enough of "the <i>religion of static triumphalism</i> and the <i>politics of oppression and exploitation</i>."</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px;"><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px;">Marshall Jones</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px;"><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#fbfbfc" face="nyt-imperial, georgia, times new roman, times, serif"><span style="font-size:20px;"><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/walter-brueggemann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.Yfef.Vbwao1vaUZ1H&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/us/walter-brueggemann-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.Yfef.Vbwao1vaUZ1H&smid=url-share</a><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">
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