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A Kingdom of Shadows
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Matt Smethurst
“The Gospel of Jesus Christ contains incomparable power to dignify those the world ignores. The last thing the disadvantaged need is a press release that reads "Behold, I bring you great news of great joy that will be for all the peoples. God helps those who help themselves." The Gospel is infinitely better news. Give the self-help thing to the poor and you are going to destroy them. Give the Gospel to the poor and you are doing to transform them.”
Matt Smethurst, Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel

Jessica Hooten Wilson
“We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because our eyes are not enough by which to see.”
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Reading for the Love of God

“You can find community at a bar. You can find self-realization in therapy. You can find tradition in Nepal. You can find wholesomeness in Utah. You can find political exhortation…well…everywhere. What you find in the Christian faith that you can’t find elsewhere…the big relief of God’s saving grace. Which is to say the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Grace is the most important, most urgent, and most radical contribution Christianity has to make to the life of the world.”
David Zahl, The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World

Russ Ramsey
“Not only are we drawn to beauty, we are the only creatures who engage in certain behaviors purely for the sake of encountering beauty. We use vacation days to drive to places where we can see the sun come up over the ocean. We visit art museums, theaters, and symphonies. We look at the moon and the stars. We climb to high mountain lakes to put our feet in the frigid water to feel the rush and see the reflection of the summit in the ripples we have made. No other creature stops to behold something beautiful for no other reason than that it has stirred something in their souls. When we do these things, are we not like Moses and David, hungering to see the glory of God?”
Russ Ramsey, Rembrandt Is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith

“There's a subdivision near us called Mill Run. By a stroke of good luck, the planners decided to line the streets with silver maples instead of those trees from the pit of Gehenna known as Bradford pears. (Bradford pears, by the way, are an abomination. I'm not using that word flippantly. They were engineered in the 1960s and because they cross-pollinate with every other kind of pear tree, their prolific offspring is destroying forests faster than kudzu. I think of them as a tree version of the velociraptors in Jurassic Park. They're preferred by developers because they're cheap, they grow fast, and they produce malodorous but pretty white flowers in the spring, which happens to be when most home sales happen. But after the developers leave, the trees require regular pruning, a gust of wind can split them in half, and they're producing an inhospitable forest of non-native offspring that's riddled with thorns. Left unchecked, they'll soon overtake all the lovely oaks, maples, sycamores, and ashes that are native to our part of the world. Take my word for it: they're awful.

If you have one in your yard, for goodness sake, cut it down and spend $25 on a maple at Lowe’s.”
Jeffrey W. Barbeau, God and Wonder: Theology, Imagination, and the Arts

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