Bill Peake

“This is the promise of Genesis 1. The darkness is limited by the light. Suffering is not in perpetuity. The light may take generations to come, but it will come. There is always hope.”
― Lisa Sharon Harper, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

“However, the uncomfortable truth is that the only way any of us can fully experience the gifts of Sabbath is to stop trying to fit it into our lives. Sabbath isn’t designed to “fit” into our lives; it is designed to take over our lives—in the best way imaginable.”
― Travis West, The Sabbath Way: Making Room in Your Life for Rest, Connection, and Delight

“given the deteriorating state of life on earth, natural death places boundaries on the pain of a fallen world. Natural death places boundaries on the despair and futility of life in the context of the Fall. In the same way that the land placed boundaries on the chaos and despair of the deep (see Genesis 1), natural death places boundaries on the despair and futility of life in the context of the Fall. Could it be that in Genesis 3:22–24, God ushered natural death into the world as grace to humanity in a fallen world?”
― Lisa Sharon Harper, The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right

“A few decades ago, Anglican Christians took the traditional rosary and put a new spin on it creating the “Anglican Rosary.” Instead of five sections of ten beads, there are four sections of seven beads. Seven, of course, refers neatly to the days of creation, and with four sections the whole thing has a cross-like shape to it. There are a total of thirty-three beads on the rosary, which corresponds to the years of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. This new form of rosary was, in part, inspired by a desire to give a beaded prayer resource to Christians who might be less comfortable directing so many prayers to Mary. However, these two rosaries don’t have to be exclusive of each other. They are different tools of prayer that do different things—and you could use either, or both.”
― Rick Morley, The Anglican Rosary and the Lectionary: The Revised Common Lectionary Year A