Though he was a hunchback of some kind, he moved with a certain feeling of joy, a lightness, as if every moment were precious.
“There are other forms of service which equally deserve the job description ‘Christian ministry’. For example, the calling of many girls to be wife, mother and home-maker is in the fullest sense ‘Christian ministry’, since she is serving Christ, her family and the community. So is every form of work — medicine, research, the law, education, social service, central and local government, industry, business and trade — in which the worker sees himself as cooperating with God in the service of man.”
― Basic Christianity
― Basic Christianity
“When we encounter opposing views in the age and context of social media, it’s not like reading them in a newspaper while sitting alone,” Turkish sociologist Zeynep Tufekci argues in the MIT Technology Review. “It’s like hearing them from the opposing team while sitting with our fellow fans in a football stadium.”26 That combative, tribal environment encourages loyalty to your own team and animosity toward outsiders—and toward whatever the outsiders try to tell you about your team’s beliefs.”
― Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
― Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community
“Suffering is not eliminated by the resurrection but transformed by it.”
― Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness
― Darkness Is My Only Companion: A Christian Response to Mental Illness
“You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.3”
― Why I Am a Christian
― Why I Am a Christian
“Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; it stands on firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the reading of print and handwriting—on second-hand impression. Thus fiction is nearer truth.4”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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