{"id":24272,"date":"2025-08-28T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/?p=24272"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:53:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:53:35","slug":"today-we-need-spizzerinctum-and-sprezzatura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greaternw.org\/news\/today-we-need-spizzerinctum-and-sprezzatura\/","title":{"rendered":"TODAY, WE NEED SPIZZERINCTUM AND SPREZZATURA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Rev. Paul Graves<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1st<\/sup> century Palestine, Jesus was considered a subversive by the religious and political leaders and followers. Today, we who claim to be serious followers of Jesus should known as subversive in the eyes of certain religious and political leaders and followers.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The religious groups I refer to are those who subscribe to \u201cChristian Nationalism.\u201d The political groups I refer to are those believe that the Trump administration\u2019s authoritarian policies and actions are just what America needs. (Please fill in your own illustrations of these destructive ideologies.)
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To be a subversive follower of Jesus, we need to adopt at least 2 qualities that Jesus embodied: Spizzerinctum <\/em>and Sprezzatura<\/em>.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t use these strange words, but he lived them daily.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Spizzerinctum<\/em> is an old slang word (possibly from Appalachian or southern U.S. culture) for boldness, spunk. It\u2019s similar to the Jewish word chutzpah <\/em>that describes audacity, courage, cheekiness, confident. In the context of religious faith, \u201choly boldness\u201d would be an accurate term.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The more I look at the parables, the stories, and the actions of Jesus in the Gospels, the more I see Jesus\u2019s Spizzerinctum,<\/em> his holy boldness.\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes subtly, oftentimes directly, Jesus thumbed his nose at religious and political leaders when their rules and actions denied human dignity and value to common people. His unwavering self-honesty and trust in God pushed him to bold words and bolder actions. Jesus embodied Spizzerinctum so well!
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Have you found opportunities to act (verbally or physically) with Spizzerinctum, but maybe found reasons not to? Your reasons are your own \u2013 perhaps for safety, perhaps for common-sense reasons. Chutzpah, Spizzerinctum are not easy qualities to act out for many of us.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps one reason we\u2019re reluctant to engage our inner desire for Spizzerinctum is that our Sprezzatura<\/em> isn\u2019t well-developed! This Italian, fun-sounding word can mean \u201cparadox, contradiction\u201d.\u00a0 Religious power, political power, are often paradoxes.\u00a0 They conflicts with our expectations.\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I like how Leonard Sweet, in The Gospel According to Starbucks describes this paradox religiously: \u201cWe expect God to be loving and compassionate, yet there is so much natural and human-made devastation in the world.\u00a0 Where is God?\u00a0 That is paradox.
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Our rigid belief shouts out a firm answer.\u00a0 But faith whispers a cry to God,\u00a0 \u2018Can I trust you to be in the midst of that devastation?\u00a0 I want to trust you. I need to trust you.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Our tolerance for paradox is often very limited.\u00a0 We think we\u2019re in control, don\u2019t we.\u00a0 When we feel out of control, we quickly resort to using any form of power that we can find. Those forms can be well-intended \u2013 or \u00a0not. Either way, they can manipulate other people. Likewise, we\u2019re easily manipulated by an inner power we believe we control. Yet we usually don\u2019t.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paradox, contradiction, are inner dynamics we must learn to understand before they can be used to serve others, to benefit others, to love others. Our desire for certainty and unchangeable truth are in a daily tug-of-war with the uncertainty and changing truth-pieces in our lives.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sprezzatura is the rope in that tug-of-war!<\/em> We do what we don\u2019t want to do, or don\u2019t do what we want to do. Then we find ways to rationalize those conflicts away. Contradictions and paradoxes confuse us. We just want to \u201cbelieve\u201d without any real effort.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jesus lived with his own Sprezzatura. It helped him embody the Spizzerinctum God has created within him.
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 God created Sprezzatura and Spizzerinctum within each of us also. They\u2019re hard for us to admit to having sometimes. And it may be harder for us to act on them. But God\u2019s Spizzerinctum leads us on!
<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rev. Paul Graves<\/strong>\u00a0is a retired elder member of the Pacific Northwest Conference of The United Methodist\u00a0Church.<\/em>
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