Charles Cowen

“By imagining some future evil, fear draws us in on ourselves so that we extend ourselves to fewer things. This, intern, can hinder Christian discipleship, which calls us not to contract, but to expand.”
― Scott Bader-Saye, Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear: Choosing Trust over Safety in an Anxious Age

“One of the clerical undertakings that Sidney least enjoyed was the abstinence of Lent. The rejection of alcohol between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday had always been a tradition amongst the clergy of Cambridge but Sidney noticed that it neither improved their spirituality nor their patience. In fact, it made some of them positively murderous.”
― James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death

“The cross represents the power that denigrates human bodies, destroys life, and preys on the most vulnerable in society. As the cross is defeated, so too is that power.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God

“He sometimes thought that being a vicar was a bit like being the managing director of a business in which no one was paid.”
― James Runcie, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death