Kingdoms

Re-posted from jyotiartashram.blogspot.com :


"The link between Gospel and Culture represents a ‘counter-culture’. This counter cultural aspect of the Gospel challenges the very notion of colonialism. The hunger for power is fundamentally opposed to the vision of Jesus concerning a ‘Kingdom of God’ here on earth. To impose one form of civilization on another, gives rise to situations of conflict that endanger the future of the whole planet earth. The concept of Gospel in relation to cultures, and especially the cultures of the dispossessed, or marginalized, underlies a new understanding of “Mission” as a dialogue between cultures, that is respectful of the diversity of peoples, in relation to the diversity that we find in nature itself, and which needs to be protected and celebrated if Creation is to be furthered, as Divinely ordained."


(As I understand it the guy who writes this blog is an Indian Christian who runs 'Jyoti Art Ashram', a Christian art village/hermitage in Bangalore. Interesting stuff. Plus I had just been reading about colonialism..)