<p>All the pathologies of openness and closedness relate to imaginative obtuseness. According to the midrash in Bereshit Rabbah (36:1), the Flood people see God as blind, indifferent, callous to the world. What follows is that human beings feel themselves free to be likewise blind, indifferent, and callous. --Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Beginning of Desire, p. 56</p>

All the pathologies of openness and closedness relate to imaginative obtuseness. According to the midrash in Bereshit Rabbah (36:1), the Flood people see God as blind, indifferent, callous to the world. What follows is that human beings feel themselves free to be likewise blind, indifferent, and callous. --Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, The Beginning of Desire, p. 56

Noah: Kindness and Ecstasy

Weekly sermon content from Manito Presbyterian Church in Spokane, WA. 

Whatever your past experience church has or has not been, you are invited to be a part of our conversations and happenings. We live in confusing, divisive, isolating times and it is our prayer that you will experience authentic hope in the midst of it all.

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Weekly sermon content from Manito Presbyterian Church in Spokane, WA. Whatever your past experience church has or has not been, you are invited to be a part of our conversations and happenings. We live in confusing, divisive, isolating times and it is our prayer that you will experience authentic hope in the midst of it all.

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