{"id":9783,"date":"2026-06-05T22:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:55:19","slug":"multitude-of-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=9783","title":{"rendered":"Multitude of Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9784\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Armas4-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[About the Tower of Babel:]<br \/>\nBut God intervenes, not to punish them, but to disrupt their project of homogenization.  God creates diversity where there was uniformity, scattering them with new languages, new cultures, and a plethora of voices.  They wanted control, but God imposed chaos &#8211; a kind of holy chaos that prevents the concentration of power.<\/p>\n<p>Walter Brueggemann speaks to this, noting that a human unity, when built outside God&#8217;s will, often ends in &#8220;oppressive conformity.&#8221;  The people of Babel weren&#8217;t just unified; they were uniform.  And in that uniformity was a desire to control what was different and unpredictable.  But the Spirit of God is a Spirit of disruption, making space for the multitude of stories that refuse to stay silent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Kat Armas, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/liturgies_for_resisting_empire.html\">Liturgies for Resisting Empire<\/a><\/em>, p. 145<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Burnside Farms, Nokesville, Virginia, April 7, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[About the Tower of Babel:] But God intervenes, not to punish them, but to disrupt their project of homogenization. God creates diversity where there was uniformity, scattering them with new languages, new cultures, and a plethora of voices. They wanted control, but God imposed chaos &#8211; a kind of holy chaos that prevents the concentration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","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=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}