A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .
In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.
The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
If we don't learn to live with one another we will not live. We will either love each other as neighbors or we won't be. I believe that it is an insult to me as a Christian to say that I cannot love as neighbor somebody who thinks differently than I do.
If evangelism isn't an expression of love of neighbor, it isn't Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.
I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.
Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
I remember reading these articles when I was younger, and I just felt like, well, in order to look like that, you have to have some secret, magical unicorn blood that makes carbs disappear as they go into your body. I prefer the truth.
I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.
A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.