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God’s love is greater than his justice — or rather, his justice flows out of his love. St. John says in both his gospel and his epistles that God is love; he never says God is justice.

That’s why I can never buy “The Father punished Jesus in our place.” The Father is not punitive. He is the “philanthropos,” the lover of humankind.

Jesus willingly endured death, because his plan from before creation was to defeat death through death. He endured suffering not to end suffering, nor even to give meaning to suffering. He came to join us in suffering; that is where he meets us.

That’s my answer to Shusaku Endo’s question in the book/movie Silence: “Why is God silent in the face of suffering?” It is because in suffering he is waiting for us to encounter him. This is why he did not take away St. Paul’s “thorn in the flesh.”

As Christians we can thus never embrace the Buddhist ideal of eliminating [our own] suffering. Nor can we accept the God of Islam, whose primary attribute is justice over love.

in reply to Daniel Johnson

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R.L. Dane 🍵

We learned on actual typewriters (the electric kind, thankfully, not the always-jamming old-school mechanical ones).

Because the deck of the typewriters were very high off the desk, my physical therapist very kindly made me a wrist rest out of wood so that I could rest my wrists on it while typing in class. It was very very first device of its kind I had seen, now they're everywhere ;)

I kinda wish I had an electric typewriter now, honestly. Something beautifully minimalistic about those.

One thing I did when the writing minimalism bug bit me was create a simple shell script that let you create a text file one line at a time, but whenever you hit return, that line was written out to the file (appended), and couldn't e edited again. So you just kind of kept writing and didn't worry about editing too much. :D

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