March 2013
1 post
3 tags
“Part of the point of the new creation launched at Easter was the transformation...”
– N.T. Wright
December 2012
3 posts
“The doors of his heart are wedged open wide, and in rushes the whole...”
– Francis Spufford, Unapologetic, p. 144 (via invisibleforeigner)
3 tags
“The free God of the stable and the cross, the wordless stranger, because he is...”
– Rowan Williams
November 2012
1 post
5 tags
“Our grammar often betrays us. We say we have a body. That seems to suggest that...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Working With Words (via invisibleforeigner)
September 2012
1 post
4 tags
“We’ve got the most important job in the world. We’ve got to be literate in...”
– Jonathan Martin
August 2012
4 posts
4 tags
“Tell me your story, the story of your pain, the story of your failures and I can...”
– Jean Vanier, Encountering ‘the Other’
4 tags
“Do you know what sin is? It’s when there is a barrier between you and me....”
– Jean Vanier, Encountering ‘the Other’
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ONTARIO, California. Worshippers said two women threw the three legs onto the driveway of the proposed Al-Nur Islamic Center in Ontario shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday and sped away in a white pickup.
NORTH SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island. Muslims from a North Smithfield mosque are asking for extra protection after a sign outside their place of worship was vandalized...
July 2012
3 posts
3 tags
“What could be more sinful than the assumption that our guilt might tell us...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity
5 tags
“Christians understand that our lives are gifts, not achievements. By that we...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity
June 2012
2 posts
“Being a disciple of Jesus is not primarily a matter of getting the right ideas...”
– James K.A. Smith (via mshedden)
2 tags
“The true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man...”
– Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
May 2012
2 posts
5 tags
““The problem with debates about homosexuality is they have been devoid of any...”
– Stanley Hauerwas
2 tags
“Ask yourself: If that is what Jesus is all about—getting us to love one...”
– Stanley Hauerwas,
April 2012
2 posts
5 tags
“We are so concerned to say at once, if anyone even suggests such an idea, that...”
– N.T. Wright, The Challenge of Easter
“There is no reason for fear because the worst thing imaginable already happened...”
– Jonathan Martin
March 2012
2 posts
“Sin is living as if there were no God, no grace of God, no creation to remember...”
– Sam Wells (via invisibleforeigner)
February 2012
4 posts
“”I’ve tried the moral argument [against war and empire], [and] I’ve tried the...”
– Ron Paul - CNN Arizona Debate (link to video of Ron Paul Debate Highlights) (h/t Ricardo)
January 2012
4 posts
4 tags
Why Mark Driscoll is Wrong About Women in Church... →
Brilliant response. So thankful I can claim this man as my Pastor!
2 tags
“I do not know if this is or is not a violation of my “free will,” but that is...”
– Stanley Hauerwas
“To consume the Eucharist is an act of anticonsumption, for here to consume is to...”
– William T. Cavanaugh, Being Consumed (via invisibleforeigner)
2 tags
“I’ve lived much of my life in fear that I was destined to mess everything up. ...”
– Jonathan Martin
December 2011
6 posts
“The Bible is not a rule book; it is a narrative.”
– N.T. Wright (via firstbreath90)
“Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is...”
6 tags
“The poor in spirit will be making the kingdom of heaven happen. The meek will be...”
– N.T. Wright
“From the halls of power to the fortress tower,
not a stone will be left on...”
– Canticle of the Turning
November 2011
3 posts
“It is the feeling of many, especially of many young people, that to be free...”
– John Howard Yoder (via firstbreath90)
“God refuses to be God without us.
We asked God to say something definite and...”
– Will Willimon in response to the question, “What is the gospel in seven words?” (via catechumenate)
4 tags
“When you attack committed people and your attack is of inadequate strength, you...”
– Charles Kiesler
October 2011
6 posts
7 tags
“You are not forgiven because you confess your sin. You confess your sin,...”
– Herbert McCabe, Faith Within Reason, p. 158-159
7 tags
“Once you have deluded yourself with sin, once you have shut yourself off from...”
– Herbert McCabe, Faith Within Reason, p. 158
1 tag
“Once from the dust, and once from the grave
Daughters and sons from the ashes...”
– John Mark McMillian, Murdered Son
7 tags
“Biblical theology isn’t done through word counts, nor is it done by...”
– Zack Hunt’s response to this Mark Driscoll quote/sermon. (via invisibleforeigner)
2 tags
“I see a sparkling city shimmering in the sky: glittering, glowing, coming down!...”
– Sally Lloyd-Jones, The Jesus Storybook Bible
1 tag
September 2011
5 posts
6 tags
“What has eschatology to do with ethics? What has the new heavens and new earth,...”
– N.T. Wright
3 tags
“Justice without forgiveness is revenge. Forgiveness without justice is...”
– N.T. Wright
5 tags
“What the liturgy of the mall trains us to desire as the good life and “the...”
– James A. K. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
1 tag
6 tags
“For true justice never comes through violence, nor can it be based on violence....”
– Stanley Hauerwas. (via digitalfridge)
August 2011
7 posts
3 tags
“Jesus Christ is a particular man making possible a particular way of life that...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Why Did Jesus Have To Die (via benghini) 