Mark R. Rigg > Quotes

“Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? It ought to be an easy question, but it is not. One of the reasons finding the true king is hard is that so many of the strongest candidates look alike. Herod the Great. Herod Antipas. Caesar Augustus. Caesar Tiberius. Of course they are all unique individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses. But they have more in common than they have differences. Their lives are about power, about ambition, about glory and making a name for themselves. They are all in the 1 percent, and they ultimately all seek to be rulers in the same kingdom—the kingdom of the world.”
― Mark R. Rigg, Preaching in Place: Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Sermon

“we see the eternal through the particular; only by entering fully into our particular place can we participate in the Great Economy of God.”
― Mark R. Rigg, Preaching in Place: Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Sermon