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William H. Willimon
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in Greenville, SC, The United States
May 15, 1946
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Pastor: The Theology and Practice of Ordained Ministry
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2002
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Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love
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Calling & Character: Virtues Of The Ordained Life
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2000
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10 editions
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Sinning Like a Christian: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins
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2005
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Who Lynched Willie Earle?: Preaching to Confront Racism
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United Methodist Beliefs: A Brief Introduction
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2007
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Heaven and Earth: Advent and the Incarnation
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Acts
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1988
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Accidental Preacher: A Memoir
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Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized
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1992
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“Despite our earnest efforts, we couldn't climb all the way up to God. So what did God do? In an amazing act of condescension, on Good Friday, God climbed down to us, became one with us. The story of divine condescension begins on Christmas and ends on Good Friday. We thought, if there is to be business between us and God, we must somehow get up to God. Then God came down, down to the level of the cross, all the way down to the depths of hell. He who knew not sin took on our sin so that we might be free of it. God still stoops, in your life and mine, condescends. “Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” he asked his disciples, before his way up Golgotha. Our answer is an obvious, “No!” His cup is not only the cup of crucifixion and death, it is the bloody, bloody cup that one must drink if one is going to get mixed up in us. Any God who would wander into the human condition, any God who has this thirst to pursue us, had better not be too put off by pain, for that's the way we tend to treat our saviors. Any God who tries to love us had better be ready to die for it. As Chesterton writes, “Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate … Real love has always ended in bloodshed.”
― Thank God It's Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross
― Thank God It's Friday: Encountering the Seven Last Words from the Cross
“We reject the charge of tribalism, particularly from those whose theologies serve to buttress the most nefarious brand of tribalism of all—the omnipotent state. The church is the one political entity in our culture that is global, transnational, transcultural. Tribalism is not the church determined to serve God rather than Caesar. Tribalism is the United States of America, which sets up artificial boundaries and defends them with murderous intensity.”
― Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
― Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
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