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“The Gift of the Dying,”
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
a contrast life aimed at communion.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
For centuries, or at least since the Protestant Reformation, Western economic elites have flattered themselves with the idea that poverty is a voluntary condition. The Calvinist saw it as a result of sloth and other bad habits; the positive thinker blamed it on a willful failure to embrace abundance.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Bright-sided: How Positive Thinking is Undermined America
The reason the teenage girls in our youth group were forced to put on baggy T-shirts wasn’t because Jesus cares that much about bra straps. It was because the leaders at that camp had confused nineteenth-century ideas about women’s purity (not to mention male culpability) with what it meant to be a Christian woman.
Beth Allison Barr • The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Hoewel de filosofie de vraag naar het sterven al sinds haar geboorte stelt, moet die in onze tijd worden uitgebreid met de vraag naar het uitsterven.
Lisa Doeland • Apocalypsofie (Dutch Edition)
Even when the cancer was in retreat, it cast long shadows.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
Church B on the other hand, who also owns a great facility, has acknowledged that it cannot make the shifts necessary to continue, and they have invited a young, thriving church plant to use and eventually take over their facilities. The dying church, in its last breath, is giving this new church what it needs to live a long life. All may seem lost
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