Tim Az

“Abetted and amplified by the profit-driven media machine, political culture plays on our deepest longings for surety, security, and even supremacy, targeting our damaged “inner children” with force and precision. In fact, much of politics is a lot more coherent if we see how people, many millions of them at once, unconsciously look to their leaders to fulfill their own unmet childhood needs.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“only by Christ is it possible to tell what is a Christian church and what is not. Whether or not Christianity, in an alienated, divided and oppressive society, itself becomes alienated, divided and an accomplice of oppression, is ultimately decided only by whether the crucified Christ is a stranger to it or the Lord who determines the form of its existence.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition

“We are given these lives to live in response to God’s love, yet our time on earth is one where suffering visits us and we are called to live in compassion, to “suffer with” others.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life – A Powerful Guide to Spiritual Formation and Finding God's Will

“What does it mean to recall the God who was crucified in a society whose official creed is optimism, and which is knee-deep in blood?”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition