Mary Beth

“As we embody God’s reign in our world, there is a place for both compassion and confrontation. But confronting evil never means domination, standing in judgment or pushing the church’s agenda by force. The church is still called to prophetically challenge evil structures and overcome barriers of exclusion, but always in an attitude of love, humility and compassion.”
― Dean Flemming, Recovering the Full Mission of God: A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing and Telling

“the church today is constantly tempted to seek the power of the resurrection apart from the weakness of the cross.”
― Dean Flemming, Recovering the Full Mission of God: A Biblical Perspective on Being, Doing and Telling

“Jesus may be our answer, but our projections of Jesus may also be our problem.”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

“The disproportionate policing, stop-and-frisk encounters, arrests, and incarceration of racial minorities ought to awaken the church, because Jesus himself called for us to visit the imprisoned (Matthew 25:34-46) and to bring release to the captives (Luke 4:18-19).”
― Drew G.I. Hart, Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism