Be Still!

Departure from Collective Madness

Stewart

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781532600661
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Be Still! Departure from Collective Madness echoes the call of the Navajo sage and the psalmist who invited their hearers to stop--"If we keep going this way, we're going to get where we're going"--and be still--"Be still, and know...." Like pictures in a photo album taken from a unique lens, these essays zoom in on singular moments of time where the world is making headlines, drawing attention to the sin of exceptionalism in its national, racial, religious, cultural, and species manifestations. Informed by Japanese Christian theologian Kosuke Koyama, Elie Wiesel, Wendell Berry, and others, the author invites the reader to slow down, be still, and depart from "collective madness" before the Navajo sage is right. Told in the voice familiar to listeners of All Things Considered and Minnesota Public Radio, these poetic essays sometimes feel as familiar as an old family photo album, but the pictures themselves are taken from a thought-provoking angle.

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Table of contents

• Title Page
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Tide Pools and the Ocean
• Stillness at Blue Spring
• A Joyful Resting Place in Time
• Memorial Day and the Soldier’s Helmet
• The Man Who Loved Graves
• Mysterium Tremendum
• Our Anxious Time
• The Common Ground Beneath the Gun Debate
• Say the Word ‘Freedom’
• Reframing the Gun Debate
• The Execution of Troy Davis
• Religion and Politics
• Idealism and Terror
• Being Human
• Creating Hell in the Name of Heaven
• Losing Our Heads
• Two Kinds of Religion
• A Visit to South Paris
• Meeting the Boogie Man
• The Waiting Room
• Jesus in the Hospital
• When the Breath Flies Away
• The Forlorn Children of the Mayflower
• The Stories We Tell Ourselves
• The Man Who Knew
• The Church on the Bridge
• Martin Luther King Day in St. Augustine
• The Neighbors in St. Augustine
• Hands Up! Don’t Carve!
• Homeland Militarization
• Jacob Miller’s Amish Rocking Chair
• The World in an Oyster
• My Soul Waits in Silence
• Two Universities
• Willful Ignorance
• The Anguished Heart of God
• Only One Sin
• The Economy
• Climate Change and the Nations
• The Wall Street Tattler
• Sorrow Floats
• The American Oligarchy—4/29/10
• Mary of Occupy
• A Visit with the Deeper Memory
• Get Off My Corner!
• The Return to South Paris
• God as Policeman or Lover?
• The Bristlecone Pines
• Bibliography