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The Servant Church
The Servant Church
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Helder Camara, the prophetic Brazilian bishop, speaks for the basic covenant community that enacts the reign of the Peaceable Kingdom on earth – not by political power and not by monetary might, but by faithful service. He speaks for the servant church that enacts a way of life no state can or would enact.
We write to extend his invitation. Does our civilization serve death and degradation rather than life and creativity? Are the ways of the warrior, the statesman, the entrepreneur, the reformer, the revolutionary, the technocrat – even the saint – all dead-ends? Must we live by subjugating and managing one another and the earth? Is there a societal alternative that isn't wishful make-believe? We write to you as a Catholic priest and a Quaker pagan whose separate paths have converged where the servant church opens a way to choose full communion. We write particularly to those who think they are uninvited or excluded.
We write to extend his invitation. Does our civilization serve death and degradation rather than life and creativity? Are the ways of the warrior, the statesman, the entrepreneur, the reformer, the revolutionary, the technocrat – even the saint – all dead-ends? Must we live by subjugating and managing one another and the earth? Is there a societal alternative that isn't wishful make-believe? We write to you as a Catholic priest and a Quaker pagan whose separate paths have converged where the servant church opens a way to choose full communion. We write particularly to those who think they are uninvited or excluded.
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