#reciprocity

[nathanalbright151]

WP-5. Partiality as the Enemy of Justice Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that partiality — the practice of weighing the same act differently according to who performed it — is not a minor imperfection in justice but its direct contradiction, and that the law of Scripture treats it as such....

[nathanalbright151]

WP-4. The Deceitful Heart Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the asymmetry of self-judgment described in the two preceding briefs is, at its root, not a defect of vantage or a slip of reasoning but a condition of the heart — and specifically the condition Jeremiah names when he calls the heart "deceitful above all things" (Jeremiah 17:9)....

[nathanalbright151]

WP-3. Naming the Sin in the Story but Not in the Mirror Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that a person can possess complete and accurate moral judgment about an act when it is set before him in another man's story, and total blindness to the identical act when it is his own — and that these two states can coexist in the same person at the same moment without his noticing the contradiction....

[nathanalbright151]

WP-2. The Near Eye and the Far Eye: Why Others Are Easy to Judge Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the ease with which a person judges a neighbor and the difficulty with which he judges himself is not mainly a failure of effort or honesty but a structural feature of vantage....

[nathanalbright151]

WP-1. The Measure Returns: Reciprocity as a Law, Not a Sentiment Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that reciprocity — the return of a deed upon its doer — is a fixed ordinance of the moral order rather than a hopeful sentiment or a cultural maxim....

[nathanalbright151]

The Measure Ye Mete: A Biblicist Treatise on Reciprocity, the Rod of Judgment, and the Hard Labor of Measuring Oneself PART I — PROLEGOMENON 1. Statement of Purpose and the Three Governing Questions 1.1 The plain problem stated: the human ease of measuring others and the difficulty of measuring oneself…...

[bddybby666]

when i’m talking to soome1 who i know is interested in me but for the life of them just never ask me a question abt myself or even like a “what about you?” it gives me the biggest ick :/

[skylark913]

Thoughts on Unity

This past March, the Clergy Council hosted our first virtual stream where we Re-Kindle the Unity Flame each year. I’ve been thinking a lot about what Unity looks like.  Here in the US, we’re struggling as a country to find it, and I know those around the world are experiencing their own struggles with unity. It’s been hard to see the light in the darkness, and it is in those moments when we must…