Stephen Blackwood

And when Jesus says that my kingdom is not of this world, I mean, it seems to me what the scriptures are speaking to us of already here in the announcement of the angels about the pregnancy and birth of the children who will die deaths that are not for themselves is the radically, is the radical self-othering

And when Jesus says that my kingdom is not of this world, I mean, it seems to me what the scriptures are speaking to us of already here in the announcement of the angels about the pregnancy and birth of the children who will die deaths that are not for themselves is the radically, is the radical self-othering

that is the nature of self, you might say the realization of the self in the deepest sense.

that is the nature of self, you might say the realization of the self in the deepest sense.

And you see this in Christ at the very end, this is mirrored on the cross where he is going to say as his last act, as you might say, reconstituting that family between, in a sense, between Mary and John so that the ultimate act of self-othering is the principle that is able to bring together some harmony in us and in what is around us.

And you see this in Christ at the very end, this is mirrored on the cross where he is going to say as his last act, as you might say, reconstituting that family between, in a sense, between Mary and John so that the ultimate act of self-othering is the principle that is able to bring together some harmony in us and in what is around us.