Quotes
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“Church is not a place where we go to profess our virtue, but one where we go to confess our lack of it.”
Yet if the church is an alternative polis, one of its chief characteristics is the striking failure to be a fully realized moral alternative. Because we receive the Gospel from human hands, our human selfishness and limitations—marked by sin and the pain that comes with it—constitute a significant part of our story. I have seen pinprick glimpses…
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“You know you’ve entered a temple when disagreement is treated as sacrilege. “
You know you’ve entered a temple when disagreement is treated as sacrilege. The animosity directed toward NFL players kneeling at the anthem, protesting police brutality and structural racism, is the sort of acrimony we reserve for infidels. Many professedly “religious” believers will be among those most incensed by resistance to this secular liturgy — a…
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“America is literally unimaginable without plundered labour shackled to plundered land…”
Any fair consideration of the depth and width of enslavement tempts insanity. First conjure the crime – the generational destruction of human bodies – and all of its related offense – domestic terrorism, poll taxes, mass incarceration. But then try to imagine being an individual born among the remnants of that crime, among the wronged,…
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“By 2024, median Black and Latino households are projected to own 60-80% less wealth than they did in 1983.”
The accelerating decline in wealth over the past 30 years has left many Black and Latino families unable to reach the middle class. Between 1983 and 2013, the wealth of median Black and Latino households decreased by 75% (from $6,800 to $1,700) and 50% (from $4,000 to $2,000), respectively, while median White household wealth rose…
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“The devil is a great intellectual.”
Eugene Peterson: It is the devil’s own work to take the stories Jesus told (and the many other stories that provide so much of the content of our Scriptures) and distill them down to a truth or a moral that we can then use without bothering with the way we use them- unconnected from the…
David W. Swanson 