August 2012
122 posts
“The figures show that homosexuals are 2.4 times more likely to suffer a violent...”
– Mark Potok (SPLC) in “Anti-Gay Hate Crimes: Doing the Math” (via honor-not-honors)
When conservative Christians decry homosexuality as unclean and perverse, they contribute to this violence. You would think that Christians would have learned after centuries of anti-Semitism that using Scripture as...
July 2012
113 posts
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“Prophets like Nathan are called forth in and out of the community that nurtures...”
– Kyle Childress, “Discerning What Displeases the Lord” (A Commentary on the Proper 13 RCL Lection)
“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
It cannot be grasped...”
– John Calvin (1509-1564)
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“It is easy enough to say that numbers are not of themselves a sign of spiritual...”
– C. Wingate in “The Numbers Matter”
“The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of...”
– St. Augustine (via eternallyadoring)
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“In a visually-saturated, multi-media culture, I worry that the time-worn...”
– Jay Emerson Johnson in “Divine Erotics: God-Talk, Part 3”
“We must never be oblivious of the equality of the divine image of all men. The...”
– Abraham Heschel (via azspot)
“In a moment of horrific hell-on-earth suffering, to throw around grand judgments...”
– Rob Bell (via azspot)
A Personal Note
I would pick the one Sunday all summer where we get two anthems in Latin to go to the said mass with no music on Saturday afternoon…
“A doctrine-free spirituality risks descending into sentimentality, to the level...”
– Geoffrey Rowell, Kenneth Stevenson, and Rowan Williams in Love’s Redeeming Work: The Anglican Quest for Holiness (via bethmaynard)
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“Evangelicals must effectively adapt to a truly pluralistic culture in a way...”
– Colin Kerr in “How Capitalism is Killing Liberal Christianity”
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“Already here in just the 6th chapter [of Mark], however, Jesus, stepping onto...”
– Janice Love, “Amazing Jesus”
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“To be a Christian is to be very closely united to Christ as living Lord, not...”
– The Rt. Rev. Michael Ramsey in Introducing the Christian Faith
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“When the New Testament rejected the imposition of the purity codes of the Torah...”
– L. William Countryman in Dirt, Greed and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implication for Today (Original Ed.), pg. 243
“Episcopalians on the right wing who are making a fuss over [the decision to...”
– L. William Countryman in “The Acceptance of Gay/Lesbian People in the Episcopal Church in the United States—and What it Signifies for the Anglican Communion” (via honor-not-honors)
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“We are the first generation to live in world where belief in God is considered a...”
– The Rev. Craig Uffman in “A Response to Ross Douthat”
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“In the contemporary world, in which we are all at the mercy of global economic...”
– Alison Milbank in “Apologetics and the Imagination”, published in Imaginative Apologetics (pg. 35-6)
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“For Christianity, the ultimate way in which God has revealed Himself to the...”
– Fr. Jonathan in “Religion is Not Like Oatmeal or ‘How to Suck at Your Critique of My Religion’”
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“You represent God as worse than the devil; more false, more cruel, more unjust....”
– John Wesley (via christopheriacovetti)
“I’d rather remove a pastor for doctrinal sin than sexual sin. So make my day:...”
– William Willimon, reflecting on his tenure as bishop of the North Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church (via undercovernun)
“I believe in justice, but I am not a preacher of the gospel of justice. I am...”
– Myron Augsburger – Eastern Mennonite Seminary (via shiningstarshiddenfires)
“In this world Christ was rejected. He was the perfect expression of life as God...”
– Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World (via iwillpracticeresurrection)
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“What people don’t realise is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“One of the best-kept secrets of The Episcopal Church is that, within its current...”
– The Rev. Dr. Ephraim Radner in “After the Fall”
CHANTING THE NICENE CREED
thisepiscopallife:
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“All thought begins somewhere, and there is more than one place to begin. There...”
– Andrew Davison in “Christian Reason and Christian Community”, published in Imaginative Apologetics (pg. 17-8)
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“If you are gay, please don’t judge God by the Church. The official Church...”
– The Very Rev. Jeffrey John
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“Marriage is a robust institution which has adapted much over the centuries. It...”
– The Very Rev. Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, and other Church of England bigwigs in a letter to The Times
“Becoming a Christian, then, is not the acceptance of a body of teaching, nor a...”
– Carlyle B. Haynes (via itstimetoletlovein)
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“Let no one do any of the things appertaining to the Church without the bishop....”
– Ignatius of Antioch (martyred 117 AD)
“God’s essence is entirely unnamable since it is also completely...”
– Gregory Palamas (via theophilus1979)
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“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. ...”
– Wendel Berry
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“We thus find that a close reading of Paul’s discussion of homosexual acts...”
– L. William Countryman in Dirt, Greed & Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and their Implications for Today (pg. 116-7)
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“For Luke, the major Jewish Christian leaders were distinguished by their zeal...”
– L. William Countryman in Dirt, Greed & Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and their Implications for Today (pg. 77) 