A thoughtful duo of posts from Empire Remixed’s Andrew Stephens-Rennie:
A Lifetime of Habits (April 9, 2013)
Idolatry & the Crisis of Being (April 11, 2013)
My favorite exchange comes from the comment section: A respondent writes:
Habits of living, rituals of inclusion, shape habits of reading.
And Andrew replies:
There is this feedback loop in a closed system – a loop that reinforces prejudice and idolatry – that can only be dismantled (and must be dismantled) by introducing new people, new encounters, new ideas and habits into the system.
Couldn’t agree more. So what happens when that closed system refuses to absorb new people, encounters, ideas, or habits, or expels them as they appear? What can be shared with a closed hand?