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To paraphrase John 10:30 and 14:9: “If you have seen me you have seen the father, for I and the father are one”—these are deep words of union bound in the ministry of perichoresis.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Blind leads—wherein you withhold the name of the person you are writing about and reveal it after a paragraph or two—range from slightly cheap to very cheap.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
from the land of Jordan
C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:
You can’t tell when strange things with meaning... See more
will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down
just the way it was. “You don’t have to
prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again.
Maria Popova • Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective
The more we enter exile, the greater the need in the church for true discipleship.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
A Good Story Loves Contrast