Susan Schneider

“There are few praise and worship songs confessing how we participate in the brokenness of others through systems of oppression. There is rarely a single word in prepared liturgies to remind me that just because I didn’t cause the particular action that hurt a particular person, I am not freed from the communal problem.”
― Emmy Kegler, One Coin Found: How God's Love Stretches to the Margins

“When I wake up in the morning," E. B. White once wrote, "I can't decide whether to enjoy the world or improve the world; that makes it difficult to plan the day.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

“1. When trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of the religion and not its enemies.
2. Don't compare your best to their worst.
3. Leave room for holy envy.

(Krister Stendahl's rules of religious understanding)”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others

“This is worrisome, not only because he is reading a translation from the original Hebrew or Greek that has already involved a great deal of interpretation, but also because it is such a short distance between believing you possess an error-free message from God and believing that you are an error-free messenger of God.”
― Barbara Brown Taylor, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others