But in order for the message of Jesus + Nothing = Everything to truly set me free, I had to first learn the enslaving lesson that Everything – Jesus = Nothing.
“However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture’s wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self.”
― Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
― Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
“The vast majority of books on evangelical masculinity have been written by white men primarily for white men; to a significant degree, the markets for literature on black and white Christian manhood remain distinct. With few exceptions, black men, Middle Eastern men, and Hispanic men are not called to a wild, militant masculinity. Their aggression, by contrast, is seen as dangerous, a threat to the stability of home and nation.”
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
“when evangelicals define themselves in terms of Christ’s atonement or as disciples of a risen Christ, what sort of Jesus are they imagining? Is their savior a conquering warrior, a man’s man who takes no prisoners and wages holy war? Or is he a sacrificial lamb who offers himself up for the restoration of all things? How one answers these questions will determine what it looks like to follow Jesus.”
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
― Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
“In the Bible all the saints are sinners.”
― The Unvarnished Jesus: A Lenten Journey
― The Unvarnished Jesus: A Lenten Journey
“Through years of maturing, I’ve learned that it’s not our job to force our beliefs down others’ throats until they echo back what we want to hear. No, our job is to challenge their categories by doing the same things Jesus did: loving them, challenging them, accepting them, and forgiving them.”
― Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not
― Hope in the Dark: Believing God Is Good When Life Is Not
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