In our initial podcast we consider when the best action in any given situation maybe thoughtful inaction. The inspiration for our conversation came from a quote from H. Richard Niehbur, the great 20th century Protestant theologian and ethicist:
The inactivity of radical Christianity is not the inactivity of those who call evil good: it is the inaction of those who do not judge their neighbors because they cannot fool themselves into a sense of superior righteousness. It is not the inactivity of a resigned patience, but of a patience that is full of hope and is based on faith. It is not the inactivity of the noncombatant, for it knows that there are no noncombatants, that everyone is involved, that China is being crucified (though the term is very inaccurate) by our sins and those of the whole world. It is not the inactivity of the merciless, for works of mercy must be performed though they are only palliates to ease present pain while the process of healing depends on deeper, more actual and urgent forces…But if there is no God, of if God is up in heaven and not in time itself, it is a very foolish inactivity.
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http://www.ucc.org/beliefs_theology_the-grace-of-doing-nothing
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