The Politics of Tables and Living Remembrances

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Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “To know what, where, how, when and with whom people eat is to know the character of their society.”(1) “The point of liturgy is not to memorialize but to reproduce the narrative of biblical radicalism in our own historical context. Where we locate liturgy becomes all important; we must take it into the public arena where we engage the locus imperii in the war of myths.”(2) There is a pivotal and historically transfiguring scene that occurs in the Gospels. Seated around a table is Jesus and twelve contentious followers. It was pivotal, in the sense that Jesus was preparing and readying himself to lead a disruptive but nonviolent mass…

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