Sharon Lucas

“We aren’t called to live first-century lives in the twenty-first century, but twenty-first-century lives as we walk in the light of the revelation God gave to us in the first century.”
― Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

“And then she said nine words that I’ve never forgotten: “Doing nothing is no longer an option for me.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“It was an inside job, with a lot of friends who were named Not His Mother, men who got to stay sober by helping newcomers. They helped him so they would stay sober and so that he could help newcomers, too, down the road. (Trust me, they are everywhere.) He called them when he was suffering, instead of his darling helpful mother, who accepted that she had her own inside job and community. I released him (mostly) and surrendered.”
― Anne Lamott, Almost Everything: Notes on Hope

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
― Osheta Moore, Dear White Peacemakers: Dismantling Racism with Grit and Grace