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Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith

No person, whoever he or she is or wherever he or she lives, is denied the grasp of God’s heart. We are cherished by God, hunted by God, redeemed by God. And having experienced this, we are reminded that we are called to be bearers of God’s love and truth, and, as bearers, we are to bring that love and truth into our culture, where there exist the

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

those who did the most ordinary things in the world with reverence, or at least with some awareness that reverence was possible in the most ordinary things on earth.

Barbara Brown Taylor • Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

You might think of Augustine as offering a hitchhiker’s guide to the cosmos for wandering hearts.

James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts

I have this odd sense that what was outside has become very inside. And that whatever I mean by “God” is, as my Muslim friends say, as close to me as the heartbeat in my neck.

Barbara Brown Taylor • Barbara Brown Taylor — “This Hunger for Holiness” | The On Being Project

The light came into the darkness and did ordinary work.

Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

The most profound ways that we encounter God are often in affliction.

Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

God is trustworthy and what he gives is a blessing, even if we have to squint to see