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Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
when someone in an AA meeting said, “Part of my sobriety is letting go of self-righteousness. It’s really hard because it feels so good. Like a pig rolling in shit.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
believing, belonging, and behaving
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
“faith unbundled.”
Bob Smietana • Reorganized Religion
Before they dechurched, cultural Christians needed authentic friendship and sincere community. They also needed to be ministered to and discipled earlier and with greater substance, especially in their teens and early twenties.
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
None of us are the sum of our achievements. All of us are creatures who stink and swell and wear out and are utterly loved. Knowing this brings freedom.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
The sufficiency and availability of God’s grace to all people is scandalous, and for many, a pill too hard to swallow.
Brett McCracken • Uncomfortable: The Awkward and Essential Challenge of Christian Community
When we try to bind the Christian faith to the affirmation of ideology and dogma, we strip it of its life-giving, creation-transforming power. Faith is about transformation, not affirmation. It’s about believing that no matter how flawed we are, how riddled with doubt we might be, how broken and sinful our lives may have become, God loves us anyway
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No person, whoever he or she is or wherever he or she lives, is denied the grasp of God’s heart. We are cherished by God, hunted by God, redeemed by God. And having experienced this, we are reminded that we are called to be bearers of God’s love and truth, and, as bearers, we are to bring that love and truth into our culture, where there exist the
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