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Emmy Kegler
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“There are few praise and worship songs confessing how we participate in the brokenness of others through systems of oppression. There is rarely a single word in prepared liturgies to remind me that just because I didn’t cause the particular action that hurt a particular person, I am not freed from the communal problem.”
― One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins
― One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins
“There is no lack of grief in Scripture, and we should be ready and willing to put the words of God’s people to our own experience as a remembrance that even in our loneliness we do not walk an unknown path. Faithful people of God have long tread with sadness and despair, and God walked with them. Jesus himself, to capture the complete abandonment and isolation of the cross, quotes from the psalms: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
― All Who Are Weary: Easing the Burden on the Walk with Mental Illness
― All Who Are Weary: Easing the Burden on the Walk with Mental Illness
“need a community that will also provide for my safety. No good has been done by further wounding the walking wounded. Love asks me to call communities—family, friends, and especially churches—to account. The church, especially, is burdened with this call. As proclaimers of the good news and servants of the love of God, we are accountable to create a space that protects the vulnerable and invites us into healing.”
― One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins
― One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
― Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“Those who sign on and depart the system of anxious scarcity become the historymakers in the neighborhood.”
― Journey to the Common Good
― Journey to the Common Good
“We could summarize all of this background to Bonhoeffer’s christology in one sentence, albeit a complex one: The cross was a stumbling block to the Romans; the cross was a stumbling block to the Nazis; the cross was a stumbling block to moderns; and—unless we are humbled and brought low beneath the cross to see its power and beauty—the cross can be a stumbling block to us.”
― Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World
― Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World
“The church is the real thing when it is not consumed with the assertion of power in culture, but it is driven by service to others. The word ministry translates the Greek word diakonia, which means service. The church must be about serving others. When a church can lay claim to all three criteria, namely, preaching of the Word, being true to its confession, and focusing on serving, then it’s a church worth going to. And then it’s a church full of sermons worth listening to.”
― Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World
― Bonhoeffer on the Christian Life: From the Cross, for the World
“Do not fall in love with people like me.
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth.
I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people.”
― Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
