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“A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.”
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
― For the Love: Fighting for Grace in a World of Impossible Standards
“There was something else, too, and I don't know why nobody talks about it. Marriage asks you to let go of a big chunk of who you were before, and that loss must be grieved. A choice for something and someone is a choice against absolutely everything else, and that's one big fat good-bye.”
― The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
― The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food, and Love
“Relational congruence is the ability to be fundamentally the same person with the same values in every relationship, in every circumstance and especially amidst crisis. It is the internal capacity to keep promises to God, to self and to one's relationships that consistently express one's identity and values in spiritually and emotionally healthy ways. Relational congruence is about both constancy and care at the same time. It is about both character and affection, and self-knowledge and authentic self-expression. Relational congruence is the leader's ability to cultivate strong, healthy, caring relationships; maintaining healthy boundaries; and communicating clear expectations, all while staying focused on the mission.”
― Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
― Canoeing the Mountains: Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory
“I wasn't unnatural after all; the cultural attitude that taught me was the real abomination. My body, I realized, was an opportunity. It was political. It moved the world just by existing. What a gift.”
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
― Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“I've heard all kinds of explanations from Christian apologists for why the Bible includes such harsh laws about women: that the laws were progressive in comparison to the surrounding culture, that they were designed to protect women from exploitation, that they weren't strictly observed anyway. These are useful insights, I suppose, but sometimes I wish these apologists wouldn't be in such a hurry to explain these troubling texts away, that they would allow themselves to be bothered by them now and then.”
― A Year of Biblical Womanhood
― A Year of Biblical Womanhood
Human Trafficking
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A group for those who work against, write, read and care about human trafficking. Let's exchange recent developments, latest books, events, news and s ...more
Adoption Reading Challenge 2012
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For those who prefer to use Goodreads to sort, share, review and discuss as part of the Adoption Reading Challenge 2012. Don't forget to sign up over ...more
Our Shared Shelf
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OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
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