Suzanne Noakes

“words, the internet actually retrains us as readers. “When the Net absorbs a medium, it recreates that medium in its own image,” writes Carr.”
― 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

“It is a mistake to think that some of our impulses—say mother love or patriotism—are good, and others, like sex or the fighting instinct, are bad. . . . There are situations in which it is the duty of a married man to encourage his sexual impulse and of a soldier to encourage the fighting instinct. There are also occasions on which a mother’s love for her own children or a man’s love for his own country have to be suppressed or they will lead to unfairness towards other people’s children or countries.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“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