Matt LeFevers

“Placeholder theology is the very nature of theology. By it we acknowledge the human need to say something about ultimate meaning concerning the Creator and the creation while also understanding that what we say will never say it all.”
― Peter Enns, Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming (or How I Stumbled and Tripped My Way to Finding a Bigger God) – A Biblical Scholar's Guide to Faith Growing Through Doubt

“My transition was a homecoming, a process of making peace, a fulfillment of my calling. When Jesus said he came so we would have abundant life (John 10:10), I think this is part of what he's talking about: being who we are, all of who we are. Living our fullest and truest lives, which means being honest (if only with ourselves) about who we are meant to be.”
― Shannon T. L. Kearns, In the Margins: A Transgender Man's Journey with Scripture

“Justice and worship are intertwined in John's theology. In modern terms, John is saying that worship is not something that stays within the walls of the church. In John's theology, the songs and rituals enact a worldview that results in real world-changing action. To sing these words and neither witness to God nor act for justice is a disconnect that John cannot imagine.”
― Robyn J. Whitaker, Revelation for Normal People: A Guide to the Strangest and Most Dangerous Book in the Bible

“In many ways this is one of the central questions of our time about everything: is the best future a return to an imagined, pristine era when things were ideal, or is our best future actually in the future?”
― Rob Bell, What We Talk About When We Talk About God by Bell, Rob on 14/03/2013 unknown edition