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“when you know the ground you’re standing on you don’t need much ground to stand on”

I recently finished Ephraim Radner’s book “A Brutal Unity,” a work on ecclesiology and politics that is notable its sheer density, but moreso for the boldness with which Radner lays forth his claims. For those unfamiliar with Radner, an Episcopalian theologian whose primary claim to fame are his mighty attempts to push figural reading back into the spotlight of church life, his work comes recommended from me, with the caveat that his writing is, at points, nigh inaccessible in its convolution. This is arguably because the concepts with which he is dealing have little previously existing vocabulary in modern frameworks, lay or academic, and his writing is a struggle (both for him and his reader) to drag such concepts into the light of understanding. “A Brutal Unity” lays out one such concept, that of ecclesial unity lying not in polity but in Christ, a unity that is both witnessed to and blasphemed by church division. His refrain in the final pages is “the Church is a sinful Church,” evidenced by Christian complicity in the greatest rending violence of the past 2000 years. To give some sense of what Radner is reaching for here, I leave you with a brief excerpt from the end of the book:

A Look at the Life and Death of Gilda Radner – Variety

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Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder: A love story

Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner s aboriginal affair was like a arena out of a adventurous comedy, complete with a funny kicker. In fact, the aforementioned can be said of abundant of their Hollywood romance.They met on August 13, 1981, as the sun had aloof started to adumbrate abaft the Hudson River, according to Wilder s abundant annual in his 2006 account Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Adulation and Art. Wilder was dressed in a tuxedo. He had aloof accomplished cutting a arena on the set of Hanky Panky, in which he was set to brilliant with Radner. Their area for the atramentous was where the the ocean liners docked on the East River, he wrote. Scenic no doubt.He absolved over to acquaint himself to Radner, who he knew from her assignment on Saturday Night Live, but not personally. What happened abutting was a point of altercation amid the two in the years that followed. Gilda said that I rubbed my bend adjoin her knee aback I asked her if I could accompany her some tea or coffee, he wrote in his book. When she told me this story, I said, You re nuts! And she said, No, they were your nuts. Well…it was a beginning. Radner afterwards wrote of this affair in her own book: My affection fluttered — I was hooked. It acquainted like my activity went from atramentous and white to Technicolor. It took two weeks for Radner to accomplish a move on Wilder. Aback it assuredly happened, she threw him on his auberge allowance bed and, according to Wilder, said I accept a plan for fun. He alone her advance. Radner was affiliated to guitarist G.E. Smith at the time, but she told Wilder that she was unhappy. I knew I was activity to abatement in adulation with you and leave my husband, Wilder quotes her as adage the morning afterwards he beatific her home in a cab.Wilder was baffled and overwhelmed. Gilda, you re talking like this is a bogie tale, and you re activity to accommodated Prince Charming, and everything s activity to be all right, and we ll both alive appropriately anytime after, he told her, according to his book. Her reply? So what s amiss with that? It wasn t appropriately anytime afterwards from that moment on. They afar afterwards a year of active calm because Wilder acquainted smothered by Radner s charge for his attention. Her attempt with bulimia additionally put ache on their relationship. I anticipation she was a baby. She couldn t be after me, do after me, Wilder told Larry King in 2002. But they begin their way aback to one addition and eventually affiliated in 1984, in allotment acknowledgment to a Yorkshire Terrier called Sparkle, some rat adulteration and a buzz alarm that alleviated some of Wilder s better fears. Aback Radner had to absence a planned flight and vacation with Wilder to affliction for the dog she d bought during one of their breakups, she told him to go after her. That she d be fine. That s what I was cat-and-mouse for for 2½ years, he told King. Radner and Wilder were affiliated for about two years aback she was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer. Wilder remained hopeful until about three weeks afore she died. I said … I ll barter activity spans with you, he told King. The irony is that I meant it. I anticipation that she d cull through and that she would alive best than I would. Radner died May 20, 1989.On aching Radner, in a 2005 account with , Wilder said anniversary their beatitude meant active his life. If you asked Gilda, she d say, don t be a jerk. You know, go out, accept fun. Wake up and aroma the coffee, Wilder said. Would I appetite to abolish the memories I have, the acceptable memories? No, of advance not. But I wouldn t appetite to ache for the blow of my life. Wilder affiliated his fourth wife Karen in 1991 at the Connecticut home Radner larboard him. Sparkle was in attendance.

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Gilda Radner and Gene Wilder: A love story

Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner s aboriginal affair was like a arena out of a adventurous comedy, complete with a funny kicker. In fact, the aforementioned can be said of abundant of their Hollywood romance.They met on August 13, 1981, as the sun had aloof started to adumbrate abaft the Hudson River, according to Wilder s abundant annual in his 2006 account Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Adulation and Art. Wilder was dressed in a tuxedo. He had aloof accomplished cutting a arena on the set of Hanky Panky, in which he was set to brilliant with Radner. Their area for the atramentous was where the the ocean liners docked on the East River, he wrote. Scenic no doubt.He absolved over to acquaint himself to Radner, who he knew from her assignment on Saturday Night Live, but not personally. What happened abutting was a point of altercation amid the two in the years that followed. Gilda said that I rubbed my bend adjoin her knee aback I asked her if I could accompany her some tea or coffee, he wrote in his book. When she told me this story, I said, You re nuts! And she said, No, they were your nuts. Well…it was a beginning. Radner afterwards wrote of this affair in her own book: My affection fluttered — I was hooked. It acquainted like my activity went from atramentous and white to Technicolor. It took two weeks for Radner to accomplish a move on Wilder. Aback it assuredly happened, she threw him on his auberge allowance bed and, according to Wilder, said I accept a plan for fun. He alone her advance. Radner was affiliated to guitarist G.E. Smith at the time, but she told Wilder that she was unhappy. I knew I was activity to abatement in adulation with you and leave my husband, Wilder quotes her as adage the morning afterwards he beatific her home in a cab.Wilder was baffled and overwhelmed. Gilda, you re talking like this is a bogie tale, and you re activity to accommodated Prince Charming, and everything s activity to be all right, and we ll both alive appropriately anytime after, he told her, according to his book. Her reply? So what s amiss with that? It wasn t appropriately anytime afterwards from that moment on. They afar afterwards a year of active calm because Wilder acquainted smothered by Radner s charge for his attention. Her attempt with bulimia additionally put ache on their relationship. I anticipation she was a baby. She couldn t be after me, do after me, Wilder told Larry King in 2002. But they begin their way aback to one addition and eventually affiliated in 1984, in allotment acknowledgment to a Yorkshire Terrier called Sparkle, some rat adulteration and a buzz alarm that alleviated some of Wilder s better fears. Aback Radner had to absence a planned flight and vacation with Wilder to affliction for the dog she d bought during one of their breakups, she told him to go after her. That she d be fine. That s what I was cat-and-mouse for for 2½ years, he told King. Radner and Wilder were affiliated for about two years aback she was diagnosed with Stage 4 ovarian cancer. Wilder remained hopeful until about three weeks afore she died. I said … I ll barter activity spans with you, he told King. The irony is that I meant it. I anticipation that she d cull through and that she would alive best than I would. Radner died May 20, 1989.On aching Radner, in a 2005 account with , Wilder said anniversary their beatitude meant active his life. If you asked Gilda, she d say, don t be a jerk. You know, go out, accept fun. Wake up and aroma the coffee, Wilder said. Would I appetite to abolish the memories I have, the acceptable memories? No, of advance not. But I wouldn t appetite to ache for the blow of my life. Wilder affiliated his fourth wife Karen in 1991 at the Connecticut home Radner larboard him. Sparkle was in attendance.