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Not allowing a doctrine or belief to taint the beauty and power of the image, in essence what is a saint? Is a saint not simply a person who feels, accepts and expresses God’s love and mandate through being and acting in ways that ignore convention and who work instead to bring the bounty of God’s love visibly to life on Earth? Is it not someone
... See moreClaire Krulikowski • The Allegiance of Jesus
My brother and I (aspiring young theologues at the time) often discussed the need to confront the white “Christians” of Bearden with the demands of the gospel by invading their Sunday worship service with our presence, making them declare publicly that all are not welcome in “God's” house. But the fear of bodily harm prevented us from carrying out
... See moreJames H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
In the midst of this psychological climate Jesus began his teaching and his ministry.
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
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The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
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disguising military authority as island hospitality.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Parker Palmer’s Center for Courage & Renewal (CC&R) has explored how to integrate storytelling into organizational life. The nonprofit center creates soulful retreats to help teachers, doctors, clergy, and business leaders reconnect with their vocation and reunite role and soul.
Frederic Laloux • Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
evaluate past interpreters of the faith. Since oppression of the weak by the powerful is one of those elements, we can put the critical question to Athanasius, Augustine, or Luther: What has the gospel of Jesus, as witnessed in Scripture, to do with the humiliated and the abused? If they failed to ask that question or only made it secondary in
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