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The growing city is more and more a contested one. Cities used to serve as spatial vehicles for upward mobility and assimilation. Now, increased immigration along with urban growth has not homogenized ethnic and racial identities but
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“Put simply, a system is self-sustaining if it requires less and less investment of energy over time. Once it’s set in motion, maintaining it becomes easier, then easy, then eventually effortless.”
― Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
― Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
“Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.” —Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World”
― The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
― The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days
“This way of resurrection is scandalous. This hope seems like such a far reach. It did then for Mary and the disciples. It does now. But here’s what I will give witness to, on this night: God meets us in that hope. God is present there at the tomb, even before we can recognize this Risen One. It is a scandalous act to hope. And again and again, against all odds, God meets us there in the depths of darkness. God comes to us, under the crash of waves, calling our name. God hears our hope, pulling us from the waters and into new life.”
― The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief
― The Night Lake: A Young Priest Maps the Topography of Grief
“They knew our names and they knew our parents. But they did not know us, because not knowing was essential to their power.”
― The Water Dancer
― The Water Dancer
“If you tell me Christian commitment is a kind of thing that has happened to you once and for all like some kind of spiritual plastic surgery, I say go to, go to, you're either pulling the wool over your own eyes or trying to pull it over mine. Every morning you should wake up in your bed and ask yourself: "Can I believe it all again today?" No, better still, don't ask it till after you've read The New York Times, till after you've studied that daily record of the world's brokenness and corruption, which should always stand side by side with your Bible. Then ask yourself if you can believe in the Gospel of Jesus Christ again for that particular day. If your answer's always Yes, then you probably don't know what believing means. At least five times out of ten the answer should be No because the No is as important as the Yes, maybe more so. The No is what proves you're human in case you should ever doubt it. And then if some morning the answer happens to be really Yes, it should be a Yes that's choked with confession and tears and. . . great laughter.”
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Gail’s 2025 Year in Books
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615 books
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