Suzanne Noakes

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“What’s more, habits and practices, while carried out externally by physical means, are spiritually significant because they shape us into particular kinds of people.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age

“what we do with shame on an individual level has potentially geometric consequences for any of the social systems we occupy, be that our family, place of employment, church or larger community. It”
― Curt Thompson, The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves

“Neuroplasticity and the formative power of technology are profoundly theologically relevant because human beings, created in the image of God and belonging to God “body and soul,”7 are irrevocably physical.”
― Samuel James, Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age