Travis

“When our churches support or even organically formulate the idea that transgender people are morally, intellectually, or theologically inferior, we feed right into the hatred that leads to death for an already marginalized group.”
― Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians

“Love thine enemies because they are the instruments of your destiny.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“There is nowhere we can go to escape God. Whether in “heaven” or in “hell” or any location or state of consciousness we can conceptualize. There is no “separation”. Ever. No reality can exist in and of itself, or be self-sustained or void of God’s presence. To find one’s self within the realm of being is to find one’s self in the mystery of God, the actualizer and energizer of being. For out of and through and into him are all things. All things. Which includes all things. “God is not only the ultimate reality that the intellect and the will seek but is also the primordial reality with which all of us are always engaged in every moment of existence and consciousness, apart from which we have no experience of anything whatsoever. Or, to borrow the language of Augustine, God is not only ‘superior summon meo’—beyond my utmost heights— but also ‘interior intimo meo’—more inward to me than my inmost depths.”2”
― Keith Giles, Jesus Unforsaken: Substituting Divine Wrath With Unrelenting Love

“He became an obedient human person, and because of his passion for God’s will for him, he collided with the will and purpose of the Roman Empire and with the Jews who colluded with the empire. He is not crucified because of some theory of the atonement. He is crucified because the empire cannot tolerate such a transformative, subversive force set loose in the world.”
― Walter Brueggemann, A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent