“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.”
― Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
― Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir
“Open-handed generosity and caring for the poor and marginalized as if we were caring for Jesus himself are extensions of our worship.”
― Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
― Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
“Paul describes when he says, “Such were some of you.” But for Christ, they would have been worshippers of personified Lust and Hate, and of every crime. They would have lived for “bread and circus-shows.”
― The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1: The Writings of the Fathers Down to 325 A.D.
― The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 1: The Writings of the Fathers Down to 325 A.D.
“The central premise is that a historically particular and even peculiar relationship between democracy and truth took root roughly two hundred fifty years ago on both sides of the Atlantic, and this relationship has shaped political life into the twenty-first century—in the United States and with important variations, in capitalist democracies around the globe. To understand the apparent crisis in truth today requires grappling with this history.”
― Democracy and Truth: A Short History
― Democracy and Truth: A Short History
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