Sublime
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Nothing less than the sacrificial love of God on display again and again as we choose to die to ourselves and bury our age-old excuses for remaining in separate camps.
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
It is desire that joins fragments, designs, buildings, and motions together, turning us out toward one another through and in a redeeming Eros.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
Corrie ten Boom’s story
John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
In protesting, the psalmists reach out to a God who loves them.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
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.
John Mark Comer • Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.
The alternative is not escapism; it is a refugee spirituality—unsettled yet hopeful, tenuous but searching, eager to find the hometown we’ve never been to.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
He yearns for the certainty that love does not lead to emptiness, that we all do not exist separately alongside each other with no possibility of being united, but, rather, that there is a union going down to the foundations that cannot be destroyed and really corresponds to my yearning for fulfillment.