The phrase "indigenous Jewish prophetic" is captivating. Steven Charleston, the Choctaw member and Episcopal bishop, occasionally says that Jesus was indigenous, and I've often wondered if Israel, too, in a pre-1948 sense anyway, could be said in some legitimate and helpful manner to be indigenous. I look forward to listening to your podcast with Marc.
Your idea to reflect on past podcasts sounds great. Substack, like blogging and ye olde morning paper, seems constructed around novelty. By the time I've much processed something, the comments are closed. Besides, as you probably know, you're in league with the New Yorker, which on the occasion of this year's centennial, has someone reflect on a long-ago article each issue.
Elias, thanks for this powerful reflection! I heard the episode almost as soon as it came out and remembered being very impressed. The anecdote with Dorothy Day was one of those that capture someone’s identity in a single moment.
Let’s hope we hear the prophets today, as drowned out as they may be by the incessant noise.
Thanks, Santiago. I think Pete and I were a bit shaken by the idea that we will inevitably be exiles but maybe reassured with the idea of a community of us, past and present!
The phrase "indigenous Jewish prophetic" is captivating. Steven Charleston, the Choctaw member and Episcopal bishop, occasionally says that Jesus was indigenous, and I've often wondered if Israel, too, in a pre-1948 sense anyway, could be said in some legitimate and helpful manner to be indigenous. I look forward to listening to your podcast with Marc.
Your idea to reflect on past podcasts sounds great. Substack, like blogging and ye olde morning paper, seems constructed around novelty. By the time I've much processed something, the comments are closed. Besides, as you probably know, you're in league with the New Yorker, which on the occasion of this year's centennial, has someone reflect on a long-ago article each issue.
Elias, thanks for this powerful reflection! I heard the episode almost as soon as it came out and remembered being very impressed. The anecdote with Dorothy Day was one of those that capture someone’s identity in a single moment.
Let’s hope we hear the prophets today, as drowned out as they may be by the incessant noise.
Thanks, Santiago. I think Pete and I were a bit shaken by the idea that we will inevitably be exiles but maybe reassured with the idea of a community of us, past and present!
Thanks, Elias, this post is going to send me back to listen to your episode with Marc. I'm struck, too, that it landed in my inbox alongside this challenge from Richard Beck, also addressing the stakes of prophecy: https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/the-moral-the-existential-and-the-6f9