John Swinton

Yeah.

There's also this lovely, John Swinton is, I've learned so much from, he's a theologian and a mental health nurse.

He's worked in mental health facilities for most of his career.

And he says that one of the most, it really changed his theology because it helped him realize that like, sometimes we're so desperate to hold on to the person we wish we were, or we can't get back to, that maybe instead of just picturing God as heaven and some kind of perfect future, but God is the one who holds all of our story, our past, our present, our future, and especially people with memory loss, that even if we feel like we're losing parts of ourselves, that those parts are never lost, that they are in fact entirely held.

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Among others she also met at this time a number of American anarchists and formed the friendship of Voltairean Declaire, William C. Owen, Miss Van Etten, and Dyer D. Lum, former editor of The Alarm and executor of the last wishes of the Chicago martyrs.

In John Swinton, the noble old fighter for liberty, she found one of her staunchest friends.

Other intellectual centers there were, Solidarity published by John Edelman, Liberty by the individualist anarchist Benjamin R. Tucker, The Rebel by Harry Kelly, Der Sturmfolge, a German anarchist publication edited by Klaus Timmermann, Der Arme Teufel, whose presiding genius was the inimitable Robert Reitzel.

Through Arthur Brisbane, now chief lieutenant of William Randolph Hearst, she became acquainted with the writings of Fourier.

Even though I've spent six or seven hours reading stuff, I still feel like I know nothing.

But in terms of people who it was just a privilege to be in their presence for a while, for me it was probably John Swinton, Isabel Hanley, and then more recently Tish Harrison-Warren as well.

And trying to hold back your fangirl moments.

We're still waiting for the day that Kate Bowler comes on the podcast and Claire goes into like fangirl mode.

They are held in his hand.

A Scottish theologian, John Swinton, wrote a wonderful book called Dementia Held in the Memory of God.

And he says that our memories are held by God.

How else could we be resurrected as us? And if we lose access to those memories for a while towards the end of our life, that's inconvenient, but it's not determinative because God is always able to resurrect us as us with all the memories and intuitions and habits that make us who we are.

Among others she also met at this time a number of American anarchists and formed the friendship of Voltairine DeClere, William C. Owen, Miss Van Etten, and Dyer D. Lum, former editor of The Alarm and executor of the last wishes of the Chicago martyrs.

In John Swinton, the noble old fighter for liberty, she found one of her staunchest friends.

Other intellectual centers there were, Solidarity published by John Edelman, Liberty by the individualist anarchist Benjamin R. Tucker, The Rebel by Harry Kelly, Der Sturmfolge, a German anarchist publication edited by Klaus Timmermann, Der Arme Teufel, whose presiding genius was the inimitable Robert Reitzel.

Through Arthur Brisbane, now chief lieutenant of William Randolph Hearst, she became acquainted with the writings of Fourier.

For God to resurrect us as us, God must protect and preserve our memories through death so that we are resurrected as us.

So our memories are with God, hence the title of John Swinton's book, Dementia Held in the Memory of God.

We can assume that whatever access we need to our memories will be re-embodied with us.

to the extent our memories include our thoughts and responses, habits and other aspects of our being, God is always able to resurrect the me that is somehow constituted by their thoughts, responses, habits and memories.