Open a Window in Your Exile, Daniel 6

Daniel and Exile shows the tension of 2 things that arise in exile:

1) "To Give in" (Assimilate)

2) "To Get away" (Separate)

3) Creative Minority (The 3rd option that Daniel lives out)

There's always a window to a third option! It's the idea of a creative minority. This is a phrase coined by the late historian, Arnold Toynbee, and his work on the rise and fall of empires and then made popular by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. The basic idea is that a group of people on the fringe of culture – so, a minority. An ethnic minority, religious minority or whatever – who rather than default to separatism ("let's get away") or syncretism ("let's give in") are creative and together, as a community, they work for the good for the healing and the renewal of the wider culture that is in decline.

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