Jim Warnock

“When you pray, move your feet. —AFRICAN PROVERB”
― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change

“MAN, GIFTED ABOVE HIS KIN Terrible in its beauty You have made, my God, this clawed, mawed world where even plants reach out with hooks and gape for prey. Bright, singing wings Bear beaks that snap in air, or fold to pounce and tear the cringing flesh below. One thousand fathoms down, cold in its dark domain, life stalks itself to feed on succulence of pain. Sucking the tender teat, Toothless and untaloned, man, gifted above his kin, refines the shape of fangs and rends the web of life with many-weaponed hand”
― John Allen Adams, I Walk Toward the Sound of My Days: Poems of John Allen Adams

“There was a time when politicians needed to be great orators because the people themselves were grappling with the challenges of conscience, trying to perceive what is “right” and what is “wrong.” But today, not only do we miss the eloquence of public speaking, but the moral compass of so many leaders seems to be skewed.”
― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change

“The notion of demon possession is not easy for modern readers. Our inclination is to reduce the notion to a clinical disorder. But entertain for a moment an alternative. Consider that our society is indeed demon possessed, by the demons of greed, anxiety, and violence that disorder social relationships, that make our institutions toxic, and that deny us freedom for a life of shalom. Consider further that our society gathers these systemic demons and locates them among the vulnerable left behind who then must bear the cost of our shared addictions to greed, anxiety, and violence.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Gift and Task: A Year of Daily Readings and Reflections