Susan Schneider

“Dignified or not, believable or not, ours is a God perpetually on bended knee, doing everything it takes to convince stubborn and petulant children that they are seen and loved. It is no more beneath God to speak to us using poetry, proverb, letters, and legend than it is for a mother to read storybooks to her daughter at bedtime. This is who God is. This is what God does.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again

“To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor

“It was when your partner left you that you remembered what else you meant to do in your life beyond staying together.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, The Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion