“We celebrate the differences among us, even that which we cannot reconcile, not in denial of the absolute, but in the gift of humility that those differences require of us. Without denying our differences, we no longer allow them to categorize or divide us. It is in the diversity that the image of God is most fully reflected in and through us.”
― Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
― Living Christ Together: Reflections On The Missional Life
“Do we honestly believe that the best witness we can have as Christians before a watching world is to show moral perfection? While that might convince some, our odds of pulling it off seem less than slim. In truth, the most compelling witness to our faith can be a willingness to humbly accept responsibility for our failings and seek to restore relationships at any cost.”
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
― Vulnerable Faith: Missional Living in the Radical Way of St. Patrick
“All too often, when faced with the sadness and suffering of others, we rush to offer comfort in order to ease our own discomfort. While we are no doubt motivated by good intentions, too often we hope to relieve the awkwardness and rawness of the other's suffering. We want to give advice, to solve the problem, to fix what is broken as much to relieve our own discomfort as to genuinely help the other's hurt. Instead, Jesus invites us to come alongside, identify with those suffering and join them in their mourning.”
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
“Incarnation is good news not because it offers us a way out of the mess of this world, but because it shows us what God's love looks like here and now.”
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
“Rather than elevating poverty to a form of righteousness, Jesus is instead calling for a revolution of imagination around the nature of what we consider true blessing.”
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
― The Cost of Community: Jesus, St. Francis and Life in the Kingdom
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