Elizabeth

“It is a necessary part of a rule of life to cherish our bodies, care for them, and see the beauty in their intricate design. But too often, most of us - men and women both - come to dislike them as the years pass, or at the very least to feel that they need major remodeling... We fight to stave off aging or at least to disguise it. Yet in his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul reminds us of the sanctity of the body (1 Cor. 6:19-20)...”
― Margaret Guenther, At Home in the World: A Rule of Life for the Rest of Us

“The mercy of God does not depend on human virtue for its fulfillment.”
― Fleming Rutledge, Advent: The Once and Future Coming of Jesus Christ

“Imagination is theology; we can only believe what we can imagine. And our cultural landscape hasn’t given us many tools to imagine a non-white, non-male God.”
― Christena Cleveland, God Is a Black Woman

“[Robert] Jensen calls for an end to our current understanding of masculinity. He says, "We men can settle for being men, or we can strive to be human beings." What's funny is that that statement essentially echoes the same hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves, and encourage men to see us, as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only in relation to men, but as people with independent desires, hopes and abilities.”
― Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women