During an era when religious institutions used theology and Scripture to malign and reject others, Jesus accepted and included Gentiles, the poor, the sick, women, Samaritans, Romans, children, and many others who were outcasts and oppressed. Being inclusive and...
Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.” from The Art of Neighboring: Building Relationships Right Outside Your Door
I dislike your speaking of yourselves as though you were the only [ones] who know and taught the Gospel; ...But what I most dislike is your littleness of love...your want [lack] of union...your want of meekness, gentleness, long suffering; your impatience of...
God may be the source of love, but people are often the vessels. from Love is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
We will believe so many myths about the people we’ve already decided not to love.
That which is done out of love is always beyond good and evil.
The moment we Christians think we have all the right answers for another person, for a group of people, for an entire state, or a whole nation, that’s when we know we’ve not only begun to confuse worshiping God as being God ourselves, but we’ve also confused...
Better is one day in the company of those bullied by Christians but loved by Jesus than thousands in the company of those wielding Scripture to harm the weak and defenseless.
God has two binary commands. 1) Love God 2) Love your neighbor as yourself. Two commands that encompass and encapsulate all. Not three, not five, not ten. Two binary commands. Yet, many Christians have added so much to these binary commands. Conditions, hate,...