Contrapuntal Dissonance

Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.

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A German couple walks past a burning building in Berlin, 1945.

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Rashaida woman dancing,” Photograph by Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher.

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VICTOR HORTA, Art Nouveau Apartment , Brussels, Belgium, 1898-1900

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Maquilla worker housing being built. Outskirts of Tijuana, B.C. 1995. Photo by Alex Webb / Magnum Photos.

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Construction of metro tunnels, Moscow (via here)

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It is here that we see a Jesus who abhors both passivity and violence, who carves out a third way that is neither submission nor assault, neither fight nor flight. It is this third way, Wink writes, that teaches that “evil can be opposed without being mirrored…oppressors can be resisted without being emulated…enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.” Then we can look into the eyes of a centurion and see not a beast but a child, and then walk with that child a couple of miles. Look into the eyes of tax collectors as they sue you in court. See their poverty and give them your coat. Look into the eyes of the ones who are hardest for you to like, and see the One you love.

Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution (via placeofdiscipleship)

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Woman holding a mirror in marketplace,  Cité Soleil, Haiti (1994)

 by Peter Turnley

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Cuba, 2001, by Martin Parr

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Arne Jacobsen’s Texaco petrol station, 1937 (via here)  

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Khartoum through my phone’s camera

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