Weavings journal is a quarterly publication that promotes a pattern of faithful living marked by prayer, community, and engagement. Such living, to which laity and clergy alike are called, embraces all those expressions of discipline and discipleship that mark the Christian's response to God's work of weaving together the torn fabric of life. http://www.upperroom.org/weavings/writers_guidelines.asp
Turning the World Upside Down
Vol. XXV, No. 2 (Spring)
All Proposals Due 6/02/09
"The Resurrection means trouble for us who are comfortable with being only half alive." In these words Alan Jones signals the radically disruptive grace that spread across the land when the tomb burst open on Easter and when the Spirit ignited fire on the earth at Pentecost. This is the kindling of holy unrest Jesus hoped for when, bristling, he asked his disciples: "Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth?" (Luke 12:51). When Jesus turned upside down the tables of the moneychangers, his action announced that the unruffled complacency of convention would be disturbed by Kingdom truths. And so it was. When Paul and Silas preached in Thessalonica, inhabitants of that city complained to the authorities that, "These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also" (Acts 17:6). Their unwitting witness to the power of the Spirit to reframe the world in light of the risen Christ also hints at the readiness of the world to push back. To be among those who turn the world upside down can be a lonely and hazardous occupation. To examine facets of this calling, and to portray for our time the freedom and joy of being fully alive in Christ, is the invitation of the Lenten season and the purpose of this issue.