Mrsmegmcclure

“That’s when I realize that if anyone’s an oxymoron, it’s me. Or maybe it’s anyone who claims to follow Jesus.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions

“If Jesus is in you, you should attract the marginalized and beaten-down members in society, just as he did. And there will be some people who aren’t happy with it.”
― Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

“I find God most in that wild tang, in the sparse and open space, in the unresolved colors, even in the doubt and the uncelebrated places of our lives often neglected by theologians and philosophers. Perhaps that’s why I keep wrestling with this story of God, with the unresolved Jesus, with the wind and fire and water of the Spirit; there’s an edge to the story, more than we acknowledge at times.”
― Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God

“We don’t have cobblestones and ancient buildings perhaps, but what we do have is the created world, still there, still breathing around us like a friend we haven’t lost touch with just yet. We may not have cathedrals and forums, but we have the cathedrals of the pines and the forums of wildflowers, and we have our own myths.”
― Sarah Bessey, Miracles and Other Reasonable Things: A Story of Unlearning and Relearning God