Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks.
If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.
What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.
The argument is made that naming God is never really naming God but only naming our understanding of God. To take our ideas of the divine and hold them as if they correspond to the reality of God is thus to construct a conceptual idol built from the materials of our mind.
The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.
Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong
Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.
Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)
Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.
I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.