(Every year Brian writes a pastoral letter to the Wine Before Breakfast community at the University of Toronto in which he calls the community to be intentional about keeping Holy Week. We share this letter with the broader Empire Remixed community.)
by Brian Walsh
Dear friends:
We have spent the last year at Wine Before Breakfast looking for a better city.
It all began with the urban contrast of all urban contrasts:
the fall of Babylon and the descending of the New Jerusalem.
The city of man meets the city of God.
The imperial regime of luxurious wealth
built on the solid foundation of oppression and idolatry
meets a city of radical hospitality, healing and joy
built on the solid foundation of the homecoming God.
Babylon and Jerusalem.
The contrast echoes throughout the biblical story.
And they find deep resonance in our own urban experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
