Roger Messner

“the crucifixion of Jesus, while violent, must be the key to ending violence.”
― Tony Jones, A Holy Week Reader

“As so often in the New Testament, the call to prayer is also the call to think: to think clearly about God and the world, and God’s project for the whole human race. Don’t rest content with the simplistic agendas of the world that suggest you should either idolize your present political system or be working to overthrow it. Try praying for your rulers instead, and watch not only what God will do in your society but also how your own attitudes will grow, change and mature. 1 TIMOTHY 2.8–15 Women Must Be Allowed to Be Learners 8So this is what I want: the men should pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, with no anger or disputing. 9In the same way the women, too, should clothe themselves in an appropriate manner, modestly and sensibly. They should not go in for”
― N.T. Wright, Paul for Everyone: The Pastoral Letters: 1 and 2 Timothy, and Titus

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“If we remove the dulling effects of the nineteen centuries that had passed, and make ourselves contemporaries with Christ and his little band of apostles, we might restore the difficulty, the trauma, the great paradox of Christ’s appearance which requires us to fit together both a divine and a human nature, the creator of the universe and the babe born in a manger.”
― John D. Caputo, Truth: Philosophy in Transit