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Winn’s 2024 Year in Books
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Ordination, Again
Winn at All Saints in Winter Park, FLA year ago today, I was ordained in The Episcopal Church. This was not a detour from my ordination 23 years prior but a continuation, a deepening. In a time when the American church seems in disarray, when we’re captured by many idols, when much of the zeitgeist is in the opposite direction (“spiritual but not religious”), I’m redoubling my yes. I’m committed t
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“This is one reason Eugene was so (frustratingly) reluctant to dispense advice, why he so detested celebrity: he knew these postures of the ego-driven expert were lies and illusions. And this is why Eugene would rather pray with someone than argue theology, why he’d be eager for a call from his neighbor while letting prominent figures go to his answering machine: friendship (with God and one another) is real.”
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
“a word we make to mean whatever we want it to mean. Spirituality, Eugene averred, was “Christ, the God-revealing Christ, who is behind and in all of this living.”
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
“I would want to tell pastors to quit being so busy and learn quiet, to quit talking so much and learn silence, to quit treating the congregation as customers and treat them with dignity as souls-in-formation.”
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
― A Burning in My Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene H. Peterson, Translator of The Message
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“Sometimes I wish that I could sing or dance or paint or compose symphonies or build cathedrals to express somehow what all of this means to me. I wish I were a priest or a robin or a child or a sunset.”
― Living Prayer
― Living Prayer
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
