Sublime

Because God already has laid the only foundation of our community, because God has united us in one body with other Christians in Jesus Christ long before we entered into common life with them, we enter into that life together with other Christians, not as those who make demands, but as those who thankfully receive.

I’ve worked at the issue of reconciliation from the outside and I’ve worked with black churches and white churches.

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When it comes to love, we are neither the starting nor the ending point: we are loved by others in no small degree so that we can love others in turn.

See Tim Keller’s accessible and incredibly helpful overview of Alasdair MacIntyre’s book Whose Justice? Which Rationality? in the article “A Biblical Critique of Secular Justice and Critical Theory,” Life in the Gospel. Dr. Keller, you are deeply missed.

The idea of the good life is not grounded in some abstract utopian order or an authority beyond the rule of law. Rather, the good life emerges from the everyday experience of individuals and communities with different values who try to live together peaceably.