James Wheeler

“Since God did not create out of necessity, God's relationship to creation is not held together through a master-slave relationship in which bondage and necessity are the central features. Instead... the creature's existence is a gift. It is the product of the sovereignty or freedom of God. It is just this freedom that the human being images as the mirror of the very Being, which is the very act, of freedom that brought it forth.”
― J. Kameron Carter, Race: A Theological Account

“Mature people engage the complexity of the biblical text as it points us to the presence of God without it becoming God or an idol.”
― Angela N. Parker, If God Still Breathes, Why Can't I?: Black Lives Matter and Biblical Authority

“We can answer the question “Who is God?” only by attending to who God has revealed himself to be.”
― Richard Bauckham, Who Is God? (Acadia Studies in Bible and Theology): Key Moments of Biblical Revelation

“Have you ever sat with someone unlike you, being grace and truth to them? Have you ever listened, trying to understand what it is like to be them rather than trying to correct them and make them like you? So often we listen just long enough to convince another to be more like us or to instruct them about how to “get over” whatever has happened. It is an egocentric approach. Jesus’s presence with us was not and is not like that. He listened and responded to the individual. Have you ever been struck by the fact that he healed all blind people in unique ways? Let us watch Jesus and see who he was with others who were utterly unlike him. Let us watch and see who he was with “them.”
― Diane Langberg, Redeeming Power: Understanding Authority and Abuse in the Church