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Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity

by Fergus Butler-Gallie

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A Different Way: Recentering the Christian Life Around Following Jesus

by Christopher A. Hall

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The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation

by Ian A. McFarland

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“Our lives are eschatologically stretched between the sneak preview of the new world being born among us in the church, and the old world where the principalities and powers are reluctant to give way. In the meantime, which is the only time the church has ever known, we live as those who know something about the fate of the world that the world does not yet know. And that makes us different. —Will Willimon, Conversion in the Wesleyan Tradition”
― Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Chris: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ

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“I did not get over the loss of my loved ones; rather, I absorbed the loss into my life, like soil receives decaying matter, until it became a part of who I am. Sorrow took up permanent residence in my soul and enlarged it.”
― Jerry Sittser, A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss

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“In the church, this is the season of Advent. It’s superficially understood as a time to get ready for Christmas, but in truth it’s the season for contemplating the judgment of God. Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world. Advent begins in the dark and moves toward the light—but the season should not move too quickly or too glibly, lest we fail to acknowledge the depth of the darkness. As our Lord Jesus tells us, unless we see the light of God clearly, what we call light is actually darkness: “how great is that darkness!” (Matt. 6:23). Advent bids us take a fearless inventory of the darkness: the darkness without and the darkness within.”
― Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Chris: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ

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