christopher spolar

“the church is, in my judgment, called to its public vocation to practice neighborliness in a way that includes both support of policies of distributive justice and practices of face-to-face restorative generosity.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“subversives in the face of totalism have always had to speak twice in the same utterance, once for the official record and once for the truth of bodily reality.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“The store-house cities are an ancient parallel to the great banks and insurance houses where surplus wealth is kept among us. That surplus wealth, produced by the cheap labor of peasants, must now be protected from the peasants by law and by military force.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Truth Speaks to Power: The Countercultural Nature of Scripture

“The gentle art of being gentle—of kindness and forgiveness, sensitivity and thoughtfulness and generosity and humility and good old-fashioned love—have gone out of fashion. Ironically, everyone is demanding their “rights,” and this demand is so shrill that it destroys one of the most basic “rights,” if we can put it like that: the “right,” or at least the longing and hope, to have a peaceful, stable, secure, and caring place to live, to be, to learn, and to flourish.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian: Step-by-Step Basics of Christian Faith and Practice