April 2011
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Rob Bell - Love Wins
I had been eager to pick Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived up for while. I’ve read both Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith and Sex God, and found both simplistic and boring, but I figured a book about an evangelical universalist understanding of hell might be interesting. Once I got past the strange prose, the book was engaging, and I...
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“The Christian life is not a means to heaven. War is not a means to peace,...”
– William Cavanaugh, Liturgy as Politics
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“If we understand the unity of body and soul, we must understand that what is...”
– William T. Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist
March 2011
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“The task of the church in the temporal is to embody what Christ has already...”
– William T. Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist
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“The imitation of Christ is not reducible to some principle such as...”
– William Cavanaugh, Torture and Eucharist
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“The logic of today’s hipster Christianity, however, operates under a...”
– Brett McCracken, Hipster Christianity
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“Praise becomes problematic for those who perceive life as technique, and live...”
– Walter Brueggemann, Finally Comes the Poet
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“That God’s transcendence is moral and not only metaphysical, that the...”
– John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom
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“We call a nonviolent man “Lord” and in his name rekindle the arms...”
– John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom
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“The search for an ethic for the person in positions of relative or great power...”
– John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom
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“To love is to know God precisely because God is love. The emerging community, at...”
– Peter Rollins, How (Not) to Speak of God
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“The church is called to be now what the world is called to be ultimately.”
– John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom
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“Worship is the communal cultivation of an alternative construction of society...”
– John Howard Yoder, The Priestly Kingdom
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“Ask the questions that have no answers.”
– Wendell Berry
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“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason....”
– G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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“Evangelical refers to a segment of the church that I love and from which I hail,...”
– Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
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“Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant...”
– Wendell Berry, A Warning to My Readers
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“Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck, and to provide for our posterity, is...”
– John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity
This is from the famous “city on a hill” speech.
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“If the Evangelical Jesus saves by dying, the Pentecostal Jesus by sending his...”
– Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy
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“Another reason, of course, is that the eschatological Jesus is theologically...”
– Dale Allison, A Plea for Thoroughgoing Eschatology
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“I have found that writing is the way I most easily pray.”
– Sam Wells, Power and Passion
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“Our words are too fragile. God’s silence is too deep. But oh, what...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, When God is Silent
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“Without limits, we would have no feel for the infinite. Without limits, we would...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, When God is Silent
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“Silence becomes God’s final defense against our idolatry. By limiting our...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, When God is Silent
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“What we crave in this wilderness are fresh words from the mouth of God - not...”
– Barbara Brown Taylor, When God is Silent
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“The witness for Christ is a common witness in which those who want to be of...”
– Henri Nouwen, The Monk and The Cripple
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“Traditions, when vital, embody continuities of conflict.”
– Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
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“Ethics is a function of the telos, the end. It makes all the difference in the...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens
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“We have children as a witness that the future is not left up to us and that...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens
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“Our worst sins arise as our response to our innate human fear that we are...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens
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“That which makes the church “radical” and forever “new”...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, Resident Aliens
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“Well, let’s now at any rate come clean. Prayer is irksome. An excuse to omit...”
– C.S. Lewis (Via)
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“What must be said, and said clearly, is that the refusal to ask our children to...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
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“Considering the scope of the catastrophe, and of the agonies and sorrows it had...”
– David Bentley Hart on the 2004 tsunami.
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“Come, come, whoever you are.
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it...”
– Rumi
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Lent is Good Religion →
It’s sad to me that American Christianity often takes such pride in being religionless. We put so much emphasis on belief; to be sure, believing is where it all starts—I’m just not sure that believing is enough to make us world-changing, Kingdom people.
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“The coward can never know the fears of the courageous. That is why an ethic of...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
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“What is significant about us morally is not what we do or do not do, but how we...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
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“The church in its profoundest expression is the gathering of a people who are...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
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“Too often the church becomes but a mirror of one cultural option rather than a...”
– Stanley Hauerwas, A Community of Character
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