If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, or self-righteous, or if it led you...
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.
We Christians are the salt of the earth according to Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, which I take to mean seasoning, not the main course. The desire for power like God's is the desire to be more important than we are.
At its most basic and fundamental level, Christian meditation is simply a loving attentiveness to God.
Rest provides fine-tuning for hearing God's messages amidst the static of life. from Rhythms of Rest: Finding the Spirit of Sabbath in a Busy World
You stir us up to take delight in Your praise; for You have made us for Yourself, and our heart is restless till it finds its rest in You. from Confessions
I believe that God made the world, set humans in responsibility over it, and chooses to communicate to us the nature of moral goodness and a rightly ordered world — even if sometimes it seems a distant dream. from After Evangelicalism
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.
I am sure that God did not intend that there be so many poor. The class structure is of our making and our consent, not His. It is the way we have arranged it, and it is up to us to change it.------------------------------------Gender-neutral version: I am sure that...
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.