Michael Peterson

“In the words of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, “Human nature only really exists in an achieved community of minds.”
― Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange

“I do not tire of telling everyone, especially young people who long for their people’s liberation, that I admire their social and political sensitivity, but it saddens me when they waste it by going on ways that are false. Let us, too, all take notice that the great leader of our liberation is the Lord’s Anointed One, who comes to announce good news to the poor, to give freedom to the captives, to give news of the missing, to give joy to so many homes in mourning, so that society may be renewed as in the sabbatical years of Israel.”
― Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

“Our Kingdom call is to revolt against the Powers by dismantling the hierarchy of privilege, rejecting all racial stereotypes and judgments, forging meaningful relationships across ethnic lines, and submitting ourselves to one another as we listen, learn, and follow one another.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, The Myth of a Christian Religion: Losing Your Religion for the Beauty of a Revolution

“Billy Graham once said, “It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge, and my job to love.” Perhaps”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church