Wonderfully said Mr. Stump. It is hope like this that keeps me going even on the hardest of days. Some days I wonder if atheism is true. But the figure of Christ is too beautiful and loving for me to think so.
The line about not smashing bowls to make kintsugi is the part of the metaphor most often skipped, and Tom Wright's caution about it sits exactly where it should. Watching the work being done, what stays with you is that the kintsugi master is not adding beauty to the break — they are making the break visible. The gold is honest about what happened. It refuses the alternative repair, which is to hide the fault and pretend the bowl is what it was before. There is a Christian sentence somewhere in that distinction between concealment and acknowledgement, and your essay points toward it without rushing past the warning.
So true and important that our actions today should be constructive, not destructive, toward God’s future for the world and its people.
The difference between hope and optimism has been doing a lot of work in maintaining my sanity the past 18 months. I think it was Vaclav Havel who pointed out that distinction?
Wonderfully said Mr. Stump. It is hope like this that keeps me going even on the hardest of days. Some days I wonder if atheism is true. But the figure of Christ is too beautiful and loving for me to think so.
The line about not smashing bowls to make kintsugi is the part of the metaphor most often skipped, and Tom Wright's caution about it sits exactly where it should. Watching the work being done, what stays with you is that the kintsugi master is not adding beauty to the break — they are making the break visible. The gold is honest about what happened. It refuses the alternative repair, which is to hide the fault and pretend the bowl is what it was before. There is a Christian sentence somewhere in that distinction between concealment and acknowledgement, and your essay points toward it without rushing past the warning.
One of the most powerful pieces I’ve read of yours - thank you!
So true and important that our actions today should be constructive, not destructive, toward God’s future for the world and its people.
The difference between hope and optimism has been doing a lot of work in maintaining my sanity the past 18 months. I think it was Vaclav Havel who pointed out that distinction?