Artful Academics: A Sermon and Prompt for An End Time

The world is changing. The wheel is turning. The tower is crumbling.

It’s post-pandemic; it’s the dismantling of the old patriarchy; it’s little and big resistances to the-way-things-were everywhere. These are exciting times; these are scary times. We’ve been wandering around in the wilderness for nigh on 40 years now, and sometimes (we hate to admit it) we wonder if we weren’t better off where we were. For all that was problematic or downright awful in the old regime, it was at least familiar. And for some of us who experience privilege of one flavor or another, we knew what to expect, we knew the rules of the game.

Now, no one knows what to expect. We might know what we’re working towards, but nothing is certain about how it will all come together. Audre Lorde told us that we cannot dismantle the master’s house with master’s tools. Some of us looked for a different way. Some of us designed new tools. Some of us are hiding in our bunkers. Some of us are building a different way. Many different ways. There are many different ways, including some regressive folk ways. They are not gone. And they are not going anywhere.

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