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Small churches—which make up the vast majority of congregations in communities across the US—have a shrinking number of people and resources to work with.
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
it was a statement of resistance.
Lisa Sharon Harper • The Very Good Gospel: How Everything Wrong Can Be Made Right
That desire to see a changed world must be allowed to find its connection to the desire for one another.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
A Public and Political Christ: The Social-Spatial Characteristics of Luke 18:35–19:43 and the Gospel as a Whole in Its Ancient Context (Princeton Theological Monograph Series Book 249)
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This leaves Conservative practice rich in building community and meaning, yet straining to discern which parts of the tradition retain abiding wisdom (hence, authority) and which parts require new formulation to best reflect contemporary understandings of divine values.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit DHL Artson • God of Becoming and Relationship: The Dynamic Nature of Process Theology
When church becomes a club, parables become pedestrian.
Amy-Jill Levine • Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
freeing slaves (vv. 47–55). 4. There is now a national movement of underground seminaries called Word and World, which is a nomadic popular school committed to “bridging the gulf between the seminary, the sanctuary, and the street” (www.wordandworld.org). Another great underground seminary resource is convened by my friend Ched Myers. Check it out
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