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“the Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things.”
― Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
― Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
“To see Paul positively does not mean endorsing everything he ever wrote.”
― The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
― The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
“It takes a kind of hallucinatory bravado to call yourself a populist while cracking down on workers and ignoring antitrust laws, which the Reagan administration and its successors did. It’s like a banker calling himself a freedom fighter because he likes Basque cuisine. It’s like a slumlord signing his eviction notices, “Yours in solidarity.”
― The People, No: The War on Populism and the Fight for Democracy
― The People, No: The War on Populism and the Fight for Democracy
“The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of reaching the heart; one must constantly pay attention with one’s mind. The spoken word tends to go to our heads, not our hearts.”
― The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
― The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
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