Matt Adams

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creative soul curating ideas in an attention economy

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Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam - When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing

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Damn!! History will be erased to make way for ever changing brand narratives that define who we are on the basis of consumer not creator/created (if you believe)

““The Prophetic Imagination, your book in 1978. They're very poetic, too. Our consumer culture, following on what you just said, our consumer culture is organized against history.

There is a deprecation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held in the now, either an urgent now or an eternal now.”

From On Being with Krista Tippett: Walter Brueggemann, In Memoriam - When the World We Have Trusted In Is Vanishing, Jun 11, 2025

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-being-with-krista-tippett/id150892556?i=1000712473034&r=843

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From Ghosts to Gods

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“sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.”

‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭6‬:‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

2 Corinthians 6:10 sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything. | New International Version (NIV) | Download The Bible App Now

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Ain’t this the story of today. The worker’s intellectual property making the rich, richer. Having freedom, yet dealing with injustice.

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his l... See more