So what are we inviting ourselves and others into? For those who’ve been out for a while, what are we inviting them back to? ...When we can step out of our institutional concerns, reconnecting with the essence of our faith, we remember the Way of life to which Jesus...
Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live, and teach.
A church that has lost its voice for justice, is a church that has lost its relevance in the world.
[Most churches in decline] have a passion to have more money. They have a passion to have more young people. And they have more passion for seeing the church come alive, but they have no passion to do anything differently to get there.
Many complaining that they are "not being fed" in their churches would probably be helped if they would take off their bibs and put on their aprons.
There's something unholy, unrighteous that happens when you combine this concept of whiteness and white supremacy with Christianity... In the Bible it says any addition to the Gospels negates the Gospels--it's no longer the Gospel. When you add this gospel of...
Every church that has a white Jesus in its stained glass has...work to do. This is an explicit racialization of God. It's a statement of power, and it's about white Christian power.
The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.
Until I went to seminary, no one had taught me how to clean the lens of my awareness and perception. Studying the philosophy of Franciscan John Duns Scotus (1266–1308) for four years had a profound effect on me. Duns Scotus taught (admittedly in rarefied Latin) that...
The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.