Eric Ledermann

“I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren’t welcome at the table, then we don’t feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“Too often, and in too many ways, we remain timid when we should be bold, fearful when we are called to be unafraid, and beholden to the principalities and powers when both the prophets of scripture and the prophets of today exhort us to rethink our allegiances. We have become the church of the Empire, the very thing Jesus urged both Jews and Gentiles of his own time to rise up against. We go through great theological contortions to prod the gospel into a justification for our comfort and complacency, and fail to recognize the vast spiritual pit that we dig for ourselves in the process.”
― Rick Ufford-Chase, Faithful Resistance: Gospel Visions for the Church in a Time of Empire

“our commitment to social witness has too often happened in spite of the lack of support from local congregations rather than because of their encouragement. Most of our congregations appear to have forgotten that we are the church of Jesus, or we have so badly convoluted the meaning of Jesus’ story as to make it meaningless. This”
― Rick Ufford-Chase, Faithful Resistance: Gospel Visions for the Church in a Time of Empire