About
Grow Mercy is about non-violence, creative kindness, and compassion for the victimized.
Grow Mercy sees beauty as the pulse of theology.
Grow Mercy is about learning mercy through modelling a non-sacrificial, non-scapegoating, and non-victimizing way of being.
Another way of putting this is that it’s about desiring the wholly gratuitous Jesus. The Jesus we meet in…"blessed are the merciful, the peacemakers, the poor, the guileless…"
This following writing serves as a kind of taproot for Grow Mercy.
I need to immediately add that this piece was inspired entirely by the thought and writing of James Alison. But then James Alison will tell you that much of his writing is inspired by the great anthropologist, Rene Girard. We all stand on shoulders.
At the same time, this writing is only a beginning.
Grow Mercy is about undergoing the immensity of a Love that has no residue of wrath, no desire to be sacrificed to, no divine ego to maintain, no need for our reflexive worship.
It’s about trying to work this all out and give it something of an articulate frame. I hope this blog is true to that.
