“Often it is the poor who recognize emptiness before the rest of us—and for obvious reasons. While I am not suggesting that poverty predisposes people to some form of righteousness, I have seen how their circumstances often free them from much of the pretense that our relative privilege affords us. So while the poor are not godlier on the basis of their poverty, they are often at least more authentic in their brokenness, and thus, perhaps, closer to honestly recognizing what true emptiness is.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“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
“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
“Do we honestly believe that the best witness we can have as Christians before a watching world is to show moral perfection? While that might convince some, our odds of pulling it off seem less than slim. In truth, the most compelling witness to our faith can be a willingness to humbly accept responsibility for our failings and seek to restore relationships at any cost.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
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