Be Still!
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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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Gordon C. Stewart. Be Still!
Be Still!
Table of Contents
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
Index