Quotes
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“…the man at the end of the Protestant road…”
I am, maybe, the ultimate Protestant, the man at the end of the Protestant road, for as I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to…
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“…when human time and God’s time met…”
The sabbath was the day when human time and God’s time met, when the day-to-day succession of tasks and sorrows was set aside and one entered a different sort of time, celebrating the original sabbath and looking forward to the ultimate one. This was the natural moment to celebrate, to worship, to pray, to study…
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“…rummaging around in the world…”
To the degree it is possible, I’ve tried to live my as an undergraduate still rummaging around in the world, and so I met others who did, too. -Roger Ebert, “O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done” The entire article, a meditation on aging, curiosity and friendship, is well worth reading and seems…
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“…more than anybody wants to hear.”
Telling a story is like reaching into a granary full of wheat and drawing out a handful. There is always more to tell than can be told. As almost any barber can testify, there is also more than needs to be told, and more than anybody wants to hear. Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow.
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“…the question of revolution…”
The priority agenda for Jesus, and for many of us, is not mortality or anxiety, but unrighteousness, injustice. The need is not for consolation or acceptance but for a new order in which men may live together in love. In his time, therefore, as in ours, is the question of revolution, the judgement of God…
David W. Swanson 