To date it’s been a conversation defined by opposition: People are routinely pigeonholed as pro-gay or anti-gay, progressive or conservative, welcoming or non-affirming. We have allowed the people comprising the conversation to be
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“The reality of constant connection ate away at the markers that formerly rooted people in place, giving them an identity.”
― A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
― A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
“Gray zones are filled with pressure and chaos, yet they are where God does something exceptional inside His people, calling leaders to Himself in a new and more profound way.”
― A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
― A Non-Anxious Presence: How a Changing and Complex World will Create a Remnant of Renewed Christian Leaders
“If you let any church people read this, tell them that I don’t have to be right to feel loved. I have to be dignified in our disagreement.”
― Us versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community
― Us versus Us: The Untold Story of Religion and the LGBT Community
“In 2010, two years after that event, I wrote The Gifts of Imperfection, a book that introduced my research on the ten guideposts for wholeheartedness.”
― Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
― Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
“And while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.”
― Bury Your Dead
― Bury Your Dead
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