

“Celebrating what we hope for together is better than fighting over what we believe separately.”
― Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage
― Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage
“The burden of what Jesus says is this: give it away. Give it away gladly. Make friends by your generosity. The door to a gospel future is by generosity, outrageous, intentional giving away in the present to create a viable future. That seems to me such an urgent word, because we are so deeply caught in cycles of greed and affluence and self-indulgence and acquisitiveness of a fearful kind that will yield no human future.”
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“As Christians, we have become so fixated on our roles as servants that we miss out on the relationships of mutuality that the Spirit wants to knit between people.”
― Subversive Jesus: An Adventure in Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness in a Broken World
― Subversive Jesus: An Adventure in Justice, Mercy, and Faithfulness in a Broken World

“The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.”
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith

“Pain is one of the fastest routes to a no-frills encounter with the Holy, and yet the majority of us do everything in our power to avoid it.”
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
― An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith
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