{"id":9447,"date":"2025-03-06T23:53:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9447"},"modified":"2025-03-06T23:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:53:52","slug":"go-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9447","title":{"rendered":"Go High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rohr53-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If our postmodern world seems highly subject to cynicism, skepticism, and what it does <em>not<\/em> believe in, if we now live in a post-truth America, then we &#8220;believers&#8221; must take at least partial responsibility for aiming our culture in this sad direction.  <em>The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better.<\/em>  Oppositional energy only creates more of the same.  All problem solving must first be guided by a positive and overarching vision.<\/p>\n<p>We must reclaim the Christian project, building from the true starting point of Original Goodness.  We must reclaim Jesus as an inclusive Savior instead of an exclusionary Judge, as a Christ who holds history together as the cosmic Alpha and Omega.  Then, both history and the individual can live inside of a collective safety and an assured success.  Some would call this the very shape of salvation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Richard Rohr, <em>The Universal Christ<\/em>, p. 67-68<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, February 12, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If our postmodern world seems highly subject to cynicism, skepticism, and what it does not believe in, if we now live in a post-truth America, then we &#8220;believers&#8221; must take at least partial responsibility for aiming our culture in this sad direction. The best criticism of the bad is still the practice of the better. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-core-value","category-god","category-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9449,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9447\/revisions\/9449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}