“But still – that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.”
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“We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us.”
― Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
― Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
“Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.”
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
“There is more hope in honest brokenness than in the pretense of false wholeness.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.”
― Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
― Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
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