Wally Segieda

“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled,” Cohen has said, “but there are moments when we can transcend the dualistic system and reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.’ That regardless of what the impossibility of the situation is, there is a moment when you open your mouth and you throw open your arms and you embrace the thing and you just say, ‘Hallelujah! Blessed is the name.’ . . . “The only moment that you can live here comfortably in these absolutely irreconcilable conflicts is in this moment when you embrace it all and you say, ‘Look, I don’t understand a fucking thing at all—Hallelujah!’ That’s the only moment that we live here fully as human beings.”
― Alan Light, The Holy or the Broken

“RELIGION IS NO ESCAPE FROM THE MESSY BUSINESS OF HUMANITY.”
― Ken Wilson, Jesus Brand Spirituality: He Wants His Religion Back

“Solus Jesus is a post-evangelical theology of resistance—resistance to anti-LGBTQ+ Christianity; resistance to the theology, methodology and spirit that creates it; and resistance to any version of Christianity that teaches people to harm others in the name of Jesus—and then, when challenged, to claim victimization.”
― Emily Swan, Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance

“God is the ultimate nonviolent one, so we dare not accept any theory of salvation that is based on violence, exclusion, social pressure, or moral coercion. When we do, these are legitimated as a proper way of life. God saves by loving and including, not by excluding or punishing.”
― Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe