bsmall2Sep 17, 2025

> Wink takes a general interest in people in various places who are getting the shaft. He develops an empirical science of shaftology, if you will. (Of course he doesn't call it shaftology; that's just my name for it.) He goes all over the world and looks at different kinds of people who are obviously getting the shaft...

https://reason.com/2005/02/01/neal-stephensons-pastpresent-a/

#NeilStevenson on #WalterWink's #Shaftology

Neal Stephenson's Past, Present, and Future - Reason.com

The author of the widely praised Baroque Cycle on science, markets, and post-9/11 America.

Reason.com
bsmall2Jun 17, 2025
> Notice Jesus’ audience here. If anyone strikes you, the kind of people Jesus was talking to, slaves, these are people who are used to being thus degraded. He is saying to them, “refuse to accept this kind of treatment anymore. If they backhand you, turn the other cheek.”
https://www.lutheranpeace.org/articles/transcript-of-walter-winks-nonviolence-for-the-violent/
#WalterWink #TheOtherCheek #Antistenai #StandAgainst
#StandAgainstWithoutViolence
Transcript of Walter Wink’s Nonviolence for the Violent

Video and links Our long-time friend, Ken Butigan, has written an outstanding summary of some of the brilliant nonviolence work of Walter Wink. Walter Wink’s explanation of the “Third W…

Lutheran Peace Fellowship
bs2Jun 26, 2024

> But whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also..
> And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

> The meaning of these lines is anything but passive for it suggests that evil can be made absurd through excess...

https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/25/joseph-brodsky-evil-williams-college-commencement/

#MariaPopova with #JosephBrodsky reminds of #WalterWink on #TurnTheOtherCheek of #SermonOnTheMount

/HT @mariapopova

Joseph Brodsky on the Greatest Antidote to Evil

“What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”

The Marginalian
Show thread&2iNov 15, 2023
@bsmall2
I think that #WalterWink's work does help. You might find intriguing the further, related, speculations at https://theography.edublogs.org/2023/08/21/start-here/
-Though it may be more at a side slant, it may support your thinking. I do think that taking the Powers more seriously in the kind of way Wink does, helps reframe Christian doctrine and mission usefully.
Start here | Theography

Show threadbs2Nov 15, 2023
> While not wishing to question the basic truth at the heart of the Christian message, I wish t o state that there is a very strong case for a re-examination of Christianity. .. By some strange and twisted logic, they argued that theirs was a scientific religion and ours a superstition - all this in spite of the biological discrepancy which is at the base of their religion..
#ReExamining #Christianity .. #AmitavGhosh think #PopeFrancis is?
Does #WalterWink's work help?
bs2Nov 10, 2022
> 非暴力とは何か？なぜ非暴力なのか？暴力に対して非暴力的な抵抗手段がありうるのか？9.11以後にアメリカの #神学者 によって書かれた非暴力論。著者は絶対 #平和主義 と#正戦論 との狭間に立って、どちらの原理にも安住することなく、しかしあくまで #非暴力 の立場に立ちつつ、その現代における有効生と真理性を粘り強く論証する。今まさに読まれるべき、#キリスト教 #社会倫理 の格好の入門書。
https://www.kyobunkwan.co.jp/xbook/archives/3756
#イエスと非暴力－第三の道
#ウォルターウィンク　#志村真
#WalterWink
イエスと非暴力－第三の道 | 教文館キリスト教書部

非暴力とは何か？なぜ非暴力なのか？暴力に対して非暴力的な抵抗手段がありうるのか？9.11以後にアメリカの神学者

教文館キリスト教書部
curlydaveJun 14, 2022
In opposition to the older Babylonian creation story, the biblical creation story was written to tell the story of a God who creates without violence everything that is good. This challenges the #mythofredemptiveviolence from #WalterWink. Jesus opposed that people need to pay to be forgiven, disturbed the temple sacrifice trade, and became the 'lamb who was slain' to keep the other lambs in line.
Show me a 'follower of Jesus' who really does hear his words and put them in practice.
bs2May 11, 2022
#イエスと非暴力 - #第三の道 ウォルター・ウィンク/ #志村真
> 「非暴力コミュニケーション（NVC）」を学んで、マーシャルが言及していた #ウォルターウィンクの本が訳されていた！ 「敵を愛せよ」などのイエスの言葉は、「非暴力的抵抗」であって、「無抵抗」ではないことをダイナミックに展開。 「どうしたら恵み深い神を見出せるか」から「どうしたら敵の中に神を見出せるか」（76頁）という問いへとパラダイムシフトする挑戦。 自分にも相手にも「人間性」を見出す、などなど #NVC そのもの。 「#絶対的平和主義」（平和が目的）とは違う、#平和構築（#人間性の回復 が目的）への招きにシビれています。
https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784400427056
#WalterWink #Jesus #JesusAndNonViolence #TheThirdWay
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bs2Apr 21, 2022
Trying to think about #LaudatoSi' and #AdaptedLyrics of an #A3 song keep coming to mind..
> Can you hear your sister singing!?
like #TheVoiceOfTheEarth. Reading #AmitavGhosh's _ #TheHungryTide is contributing tot he mental song editing...
> You drank the wine but it tastes like water.
You broke the bread but it had turned to stone.
Your sacrament it lay scattered on the pavement
The covenants you kept have all been stolen and sold.
https://www.cancioneros.com/lyrics/song/2257462/converted-a3
#WalterWink comes to mind too.
Lyrics to the song Converted - A3

Lyrics to the song Converted - A3 - Song lyrics of all styles.

CANCIONEROS.COM/LYRICS
Show threadbs2Apr 9, 2022
> .. the backhand is not for injuring people, it’s for humiliating people, degrading. Masters backhand their slaves, husbands wives, parents children, Romans Jews, it’s always one down isn’t it. So it’s inserting a person back in the social role he plays as an inferior. The whole point was to force someone who was out of line to get back in line.
#WalterWink #TurnTheOtherCheeck #Bible