Travis

“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

“But the pull of God’s largeness summons all of us, often through the words and presence of “the other.” The old teaching of exclusion cannot fully protect us from God’s pull to be a neighbor.”
― Walter Brueggemann, A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent

“Some people have culturally specific gender categories, such as the Two Spirit people in many Native American tribes, the fa’afafine of Samoa, the hijra of India, the sekrata of Madagascar, and the muxes of Mexico. These cultures recognize more than two genders, and often people in these additional gender categories were historically held in high esteem or considered spiritually powerful in some way.”
― Austen Hartke, Transforming: The Bible and the Lives of Transgender Christians

“we are flooded with the gifts of neighborliness—the economy of the rich devouring the poor is now inappropriate; we are now flooded with peaceable possibility—the old lust for war and violence is now out of sync; we are flooded with fruitfulness—the technological destruction that seeks to sustain our unsustainable standard of living is now passé.”
― Walter Brueggemann, A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent