We all have to admit that our secret inner attitudes are often cruel, attacking, judgmental, and harsh. The ego seems to find its energy precisely by having something to oppose, fix, or change.
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We Are Already One
“We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.” – Thomas Merton
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God’s Goal
God’s goal, it seems to me, is the same as in creation. It is the making of persons, not the making of a uniform mob, which means there is clear diversity and a kind of open-endedness in all of nature. In other words, heaven is precisely not uniformity.
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Living In The Hope Of The Resurrection
“Faith in the resurrection is the ground on which Christians hope for a different future, a transition to a society less destructive, more peaceful and more whole. Living in this hope grounds the Christian ethic of resistance and calls ekklesia to live as a ‘contrast community’ to society.” – Timothy Gorringe and Rosie Beckham
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A Love-affair Between God And The Soul
The marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is for the sake of a love-affair between God and the soul, not to create an organizational plan for any particular religion.
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Kingdom of God…Like Leaven
“The New Testament vision does not pit a “Christian culture” against a non-Christian culture; rather does it introduce a leaven into any existing culture into which it insinuates itself, a leaven whereby that already existing culture is then affected.” – Leonard Verduin
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Christianity Is Cultureinfluencing
“It is implied in the NT vision that Christianity is not a culture-creating thing, but rather a cultureinfluencing one.” – Leonard Verduin writing on Jesus’ teaching to render onto Ceasar Ceasar’s and God, God’s.
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American Christian Identity Crisis
“There are two opposite spirits that have been operative within American Christianity since the beginning of this nation. One is submission. The other is revolution. The one was learned from Jesus, the other from the Enlightenment. This dual spirit explains how guns, the military, soldiering, and Old Glory are virtual sacraments in the life of the American Church. In fact, the average Christian may be more moved to tears by these symbols than they are by baptism, the broken bread and poured out wine, and the preaching of the cross.” – Rance Darity
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Called To Love Others
Loving others isn’t just something we are called to say; it’s something we’re called to say and do with everything from our mouths and hands to our wallets. When we do, we find God, waiting.
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Reality Is Both/And
As long as you can deal with life as a set of universal abstractions, you can pretend that the binary system is true. But once you deal with concrete reality—with yourself, with someone you love, with actual moments—you find that reality is always a mixture of good and bad, dark and light, life and death. Reality requires more a both/ and approach than either/ or differentiation.
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Learning From Others, Seeking The Way 