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

“Sometimes folks ask this question about giving to beggars and panhandlers with suspicion, speculating that homeless folks will just use their money for drugs or alcohol, which happens sometimes. But we don’t always ask what CEOs are doing with our money when we give it to their companies, and they may also be buying drugs or pornography (or yachts) with our money! In”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution, Updated and Expanded: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“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

“Frederick Douglass wrote in his autobiography, “Between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference — so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity.”
― Shane Claiborne, Common Prayer Pocket Edition: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals