New Fundamentalism and It’s Cure
We live in rigid and graceless times. “Cancel culture” is the new fundamentalism, and fire and brimstone is preached from many media outlets.
QUOTABLES: Bonhoeffer & the Lowly Manger
“Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory fo God […]
QUOTABLES: Bonhoeffer on Preaching
“When a preacher opens the Bible and interprets the Word of God, a mystery takes place, a miracle: the grace of God, who comes down from heaven into our midst and speaks to us, knocks on our door, asks questions, warns us, puts pressure on us, alarms us, […]
QUOTABLES: Wesley on God’s Book!
“To candid, reasonable men I am not afraid to lay open what have been the inmost thoughts of my heart. I have thought: I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God and returning […]
QUOTABLES: Jobs, Hope & Cash
“Ten years ago the USA had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash. Now they have no Jobs, no Hope, and no Cash.”
QUOTABLES: John Wesley
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.” -John Wesley
QUOTABLES: An Odd Community
“Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.” – From Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony by Hauerwas & Willimon
QUOTABLES: On Consumer Christianity
“In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centered on the living Christ. Then the church move to Greece, where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome, where it became and institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. […]
QUOTABLES: Karl Barth
“The deepest crevasse of hell is reserved for theologians who love their theology more than they love Jesus.” -Karl Barth
C.S. Lewis, Cupid & God’s Inescapable Love
Here’s a repost from last year worth sharing again. -JB It’s Valentine’s Day. The celebration heart-shaped candies that taste like chalk, and overpriced cards that tell our sweethearts what some Hallmark writer thinks — who, for all we know, has never even been on a date. It’s the […]
QUOTABLES: Thomas Merton
“Why should I fear anything that cannot rob me of God, and why should I desire something that cannot give me possession of Him?” -Thomas Merton, “New Seeds of Contemplation” (p.157)
