I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what … - Stanley Hauerwas

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There are people starving in the siege, there are children traumatized and terrified. There are men women and children dying. This is a situation that has reached the proportions of a tremendous humanitarian crisis. It is a tragedy and every minute that passes we lose lives and more people are brutalized and traumatized.

Stanley Hauerwas

I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.

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I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

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We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

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Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

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I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.

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From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

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