The Habit Marsh Moyle Spreads Rumours of a Better Country
Feb 2, 2026
Marsh Moyle, author and long-term Central Europe resident who organized translation and publishing projects behind the Iron Curtain, discusses trust, community, and moral imagination. He recounts life under and after communism and a café exercise that exposes trust deficits. Conversations explore law versus love, a Trinitarian alternative to extremes, hospitality as trust, and how true personhood grows within real communities.
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Use The 'Now And Not Yet' Café Exercise
- Run the 'cafe now and not yet' exercise: give groups a commandment and imagine its local consequences to surface concrete goodness.
- Use it at dinner tables or seminars to translate abstract virtues into practical communal vision.
Mountain Of Keys Symbolizes Lost Trust
- Marsh Moyle describes seeing men in Kharkiv carrying huge bunches of keys because people distrusted one another and secured many locks.
- He dreamed of Trafalgar Square piled with keys to show the wasted energy of living without trust.
Law As Shadow, Love As Third Dimension
- Moyle reads the Old Testament law as a shadow pointing to a richer, three-dimensional reality found in the Sermon on the Mount.
- He frames human power as raw power, law, or love, urging believers to cultivate mediated power by love.
